no normal american goes to prison for having sex with prostitutes (maybe a day?). you get probation and socially humiliated.
as you know, the grand jury is the prosecutor's best case. there is no defense there. and they still couldnt get the most basic of charges against him. obviously, whatever they presented didnt work
in my uneducated opinion, i think most people werent convinced these "massage therapists" didnt know exectly what they were getting into, and that this is largely a profit driven exercise by a politically ambitious plaintiff's lawyer who ran for governor last time out, and a bunch of women who are piling on hoping to get a nice settlement check.
i could be wrong. but i find the idea of watson as a "serial rapist" to be far fetched. i think he's a dude who likes the no attachment sex that comes from prostitutes. however, i recognize i could be very wrong.
but im not one to jump aboard the "wont someone please think of the children!!!!!!" morality play easily.