SANTA MARIA - The younger brother of the boy accusing Michael Jackson of sex abuse said in court that the singer showed both children pornographic internet sites on their first visit to the singer's Neverland Ranch.
Taking the witness stand in the Jackson trial, the younger brother, now 14, said
he and his brother first visited Neverland, in central California, in 2000, when his brother was fighting cancer.
The boy said he went into Jackson's bedroom with his brother and an aide to the pop star. Jackson's young children Prince Michael and Paris were asleep on the bed while an aide connected the computer to the internet. At one point, they saw a picture of a woman topless, he said.
"A lady had her shirt up. He (Jackson) said 'Got milk?,"' the accuser's brother said. "Michael told us not to tell our parents what we did."
The group looked at several adult websites and then the two brothers and Jackson's two children slept on Jackson's bed. Jackson and his aide slept on the floor, the brother said.
The court was shown pictures of the hallway outside Jackson's bedroom, including a coded keypad entry system and a sensor that set off an alarm when anyone approached.
Jackson, 46, is charged with molesting the older boy, who was 13 at the time, after plying him with alcohol on a subsequent visit to Neverland in 2003. He is also accused of conspiring to commit child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.
The self-styled "King of Pop," who has pleaded innocent, faces more than 20 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
Defence lawyers contend Jackson was the victim of a scam by his accuser's mother in a bid to wrest money from him.
Earlier on Monday, the 18-year-old sister of the boy broke down in tears several times during cross-examination by Jackson's lawyer about the family's shifting relationship with the singer, whom they had once embraced as a father figure.
Jackson's lawyer, Tom Mesereau, confronted the girl with conflicting statements and an apparent inability to remember key facts, suggesting she had been coached by the prosecution.
Both the accuser's sister and younger brother said they had seen their sibling acting strangely on a visit to Jackson's suite at a Miami hotel in 2003.
The prosecution charges Jackson served his accuser wine out of soda cans despite the fact he was a minor and a cancer patient.
"He was stumbling around and he had a soda can in his hands. He wasn't acting right. He was acting funny," the brother said of his older sibling.
The brother was drinking out of a 7 UP soda can, which is a clear liquid. "I saw red around the 7 UP can," the brother said.
- REUTERS
SANTA MARIA - The younger brother of the boy accusing Michael Jackson of sex abuse said in court that the singer showed both children pornographic internet sites on their first visit to the singer's Neverland Ranch.
Taking the witness stand in the Jackson trial, the younger brother, now 14, said
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