MtheGM, I thought you'd take the narrator's view *smile*..

But to offer a more modern counterpoint, clearly his *perspective* (the narrator of the song is the accused man) is no more valid than that of Humbert Humbert who utterly charms and seduces the reader, while simultaneously conniving to murder his young wards Mother in order to gain sexual access to her, fantasising about sexually molesting his own eight year old grandchild by her, and indeed proceeding to abduct her in order to fulfill his sexual fantasies through her.

I'm not suggesting that the man accused by Fanny Blair was as much of a charming pervert as Humbert Humbert, but that charming perverts are, well, charming, but nevertheless perverts.

The notion of an 11 yr. old simply "stirring up malicious bullshit" is also far more likely now, than it was back then.