LeGal, these are allegations only at this stage, that's all. Having said that, I personally suspect that there is considerable substance to those allegations.

What concerns me just as much is that many people seem to have been 'in the know' for a great many years (including, if its to be believed, at least one celebrity who presents themselves as a champion of a leading child-protection organisation), so WTF didn't they come forward and speak out when JS was still alive and could have been tried in the courts?

As it stands, these allegations will forever remain just that - allegations - they will never be tested in a court, and the dead really don't give a flyin' fuck about allegations, do they?