I do believe he molested children, although I think the reason we have trouble accepting it is that I think there are a bunch of types of molestation, and we as a culture have a poor understanding of what these are, and so we struggle to recognize them.

Epstein, for instance, sought the youngest possible post-pubescent girls in order to get off on taking their innocence.

Jackson, imo, sought out intimate friendships with prepubescent children for companionship, and those unsupervised interactions included nudity and touching of an inappropriate nature.

Both are child abuse. But they look different. Jackson got away with it (and still does, in a sense) because we don't understand his motivations the way we can for Epstein, so we can't recognize what happened.