Michael Jackson waves as he leaves Santa Barbara County Courthouse on Momnday. The younger brother of the boy accusing Michael Jackson of sex abuse said on Monday the singer showed both children pornographic websites, gave them wine in soda cans and called it 'Jesus Juice', and once walked naked in front of them with an erection. Taking the witness stand in the Jackson trial, the younger brother, now 14, said he and his brother were shown Internet porn on their first visit to Jackson's Neverland ranch, in central California, in 2000, when his brother was fighting cancer. - Reuters
SANTA MARIA, California (AP):
A 14-YEAR-OLD boy who said he saw Michael Jackson molest his brother,
testified under cross-examination Tuesday that he lied under oath in another case involving his father and mother.
"When you were asked if your dad ever hit you, you said 'never,"' said defence attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. "Were you telling the truth?"
"No," said the boy, who is the only trial witness so far to testify that molestation occurred.
"Did someone tell you to lie in the J.C. Penny case?" the lawyer asked, referring to a civil lawsuit brought by the boy's mother against the department store company over an encounter with security guards.
"I don't remember," the boy said.
When Mesereau asked him to tell the jury
why he lied under oath, the boy said, "I don't remember. It was five years ago. I don't
remember nothing."
Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy at Neverland in 2003, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold the family captive to get them to rebut a damaging documentary in which Jackson said he allowed children to sleep in his bedroom.
Mesereau focused much of his questioning on the lawsuit in which the mother claimed that she was sexually assaulted and the family was beaten by guards after the accuser in the Jackson case left a store with items that had not been paid for. The defense contends the suit shows the family has a history of filing false claims to get money.
The 14-year-old boy became a crucial
prosecution witness Monday when he testified to actually seeing molestation by walking in on Jackson as he engaged in acts with his sleeping brother in Jackson's bedroom.
TV DOCUMENTARY
On Monday, the boy said he twice saw Jackson masturbating with one hand while the other was in his brother's underwear. He did not state the dates of the incidents, which the prosecution says
followed a February 2003 TV documentary in which Jackson appeared with the boy at his Neverland ranch.
The witness said that on the night he discovered Jackson with his brother, he pushed open the door to Jackson's room and, "I saw directly onto the bed. I saw my brother was outside the covers. I saw Michael's left hand in my brother's underwear and I saw his right hand in his underwear," he said.
He described his brother as curled up and snoring slightly, and he said he saw Jackson masturbating.
"He had his eyes closed," the witness said.
Two days later, he said, he encountered a similar scene.
"I went upstairs. The same thing was happening but my brother was on his back ... My brother was asleep. Michael was masturbating while he had his left hand in my brother's underwear."
The witness said he watched both incidents for a few seconds before going to a guest room.
