Jackson ‘showed adult websites to young brothers’
Michael Jackson showed a 13-year-old and his younger brother pornographic websites and warned them not to tell anyone what they were up to, a court heard today.
The accuser’s brother, now 14, told a court in Santa Maria court that he and his brother looked at the internet and then watched episodes of The Simpsons at Jackson’s Neverland ranch.
Asked what was on the websites, he said: “Females”. Asked whether they were dressed, he said no.
“Michael told us not to tell no one what we did, not to tell our parents what we did,” said the boy.
He claimed that while looking at an image of a woman’s breasts Jackson once joked, “Got milk?”
He said at another point Jackson whispered to his sleeping son, Prince Michael: “You’re missing some ...” using a vulgar term for the female anatomy.
The young witness recalled one night when he and his brother had spent the night in Jackson’s bedroom.
He said they shared a bed with Jackson’s children Prince Michael and Paris while the singer slept on the floor.
Jackson had given him the security code to enter his bedroom without setting off an alarm, he told the jury. He had also acquired another code for all the locks at Neverland.
The witness told a grand jury last year that he had witnessed Jackson twice abuse his brother as they lay on the singer’s bed.
He also told the court he had once seen Jackson licking his brother’s head as he rested it on his shoulder during a flight.
He said that on the trip back to Neverland from Miami, where the family was allegedly whisked when the Bashir documentary aired in the US, he had seen his brother and Jackson drinking from soda cans.
It is the prosecution’s case that the singer plied the youngster with alcohol disguised in cans.
The witness described an incident in Miami when he had walked into a hotel room to find the two engaged in some form of cursing competition, both swearing repeatedly, often using words of a sexual nature.
He said later his brother appeared to be stumbling about the hotel “acting funny” and drinking a light red liquid from a 7Up can.
Back at Neverland he claimed he and his brother drank alcohol with Jackson almost every night.
He said four people shared Jackson’s bed – himself, the accuser and the young son of a Jackson associate, all bedding down next to the singer.
The teenager’s testimony could prove problematic for the prosecution’s case, revealing inconsistencies in the family’s evidence.
The witness said he and his brother had spent their first night at Neverland with their father and the second night in Jackson’s bedroom.
But his sister told the jury the boys spent the first night with the singer.
His evidence that both Jackson and his brother were drinking from separate soda cans on the flight also contradicts his sister’s recollection that the two had shared one drink.
Earlier, the jury heard a tape on which the children’s mother said she felt her children were “safe” and “protected” when they were with the singer.
The tape was made by a private investigator working for the Jackson team 10 days after British journalist Martin Bashir’s ‘Living With Michael Jackson’ documentary aired in the United States.
On the tape, the 13-year-old accuser and his family heap praise on the singer, describing him as a father figure who took them in after years of abuse by the children’s father.
His mother said everything changed when Jackson came into their lives.
“We had been neglected, rejected, spat on. Doors closed,” she said.
“Michael took us from the line and pulled us up to the front and said, ‘You matter to me.’ He never left us behind.”
She claimed her ex-husband was jealous of Jackson because he was the father “he never was.”
The accuser’s sister, now 18, broke down on the witness stand as she could be heard extolling the virtues of Jackson during the 45-minute tape.
She said at that point she had “still liked Mr Jackson” and was “just latching onto something.”
Jackson, 46, denies plying his accuser with alcohol and conspiring to hold him and his family captive.
