Witness: Michael Licked My Brother
Cussing, Internet porn surfing, head-licking.
Such was life with Michael Jackson, per testimony Monday of the accuser's younger brother.
The 14-year-old boy was the second family member to take the stand--and the first to offer testimony of sexual misconduct by Jackson--as the singer's child-molestation trial entered its second week in Santa Maria, California.
One night, while staying with his family at Jackson's Neverland Ranch, the boy left the bed he was sharing with his brother, he said, only to return and find Jackson in the bed with his brother.
"My brother was asleep," the boy testified. "Michael was masturbating while he [Jackson] had his left hand in my brother's underwears."
The boy, billed as the state's only witness to the alleged molestation, said he saw Jackson do the same thing to his brother on one other occasion.
In another provocative bit of testimony, the boy said he saw Jackson lick his groggy brother's head on a chartered flight from Miami to Neverland.
"He was just licking his head," the boy testified.
The licking went on, he said, for six seconds.
Elsewhere, the child all but described Neverland as a play land of inequity, where s'mores were served, go-karts were raced and children were exposed to wine, X-rated Websites and the King of Pop's birthday suit.
"Me and my brother were watching a movie and Michael walked up naked," the boy said.
The boy described he and his brother as "grossed" out by Jackson's "hard on." Jackson, for one, seemed unfazed, the brother said.
"He sat on the bed and he told us it was natural, and then he walked back downstairs," the boy testified.
On another occasion at Neverland, the boy said, he, his older brother and another child all slept with Jackson in the singer's bed.
Jackson is accused of liquoring up the boy's brother, masturbating him and holding him and his family against their will. The entertainer has pleaded innocent to all charges.
The prosecution alleges wine and booze were used by Jackson to seduce his alleged victim. Testimony from the younger brother, nicknamed "Blow Hole" by Jackson, was used to bolster those claims.
Prior to the alleged head-licking incident, the boy said he saw his brother and Jackson sipping from soda cans on the Miami-Neverland flight. (Previously, the sister of the accuser said her sibling and Jackson shared one can.) When Jackson offered the younger brother a Diet Coke can, he testified, the singer told him there was wine inside.
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Earlier, in Miami, where the family had been shuttled just as the Martin Bashir documentary, Living with Michael Jackson was about to debut on ABC, the boy testified that his older brother was "acting funny," and sipping from a 7-Up can filled with "light red," not clear, liquid.
Also in Miami, the boy said, Jackson called his brother into a room. When the boy popped his head inside, he testified he witnessed Jackson and his brother shouting obscenities at each other.
"They were probably saying the 'F' word, the 'B' word--all different combinations," the boy said.
According to prosecutor Tom Sneddon's opening argument, this so-called "cussing contest" was part of Jackson's plot to desensitize his alleged victim.
Under direct questioning by the prosecution, the younger brother gave voice to Jackson's reputed "Got milk?" quip, supposedly delivered as the singer led the boy and his older brother on a tour of Websites depicting busty, naked women.
Jackson's naughty side allegedly surfaced again on the Miami-Neverland charter flight, when, per the younger brother, Jackson made crank phone calls.
"He called up [a woman] and he said he was having a consensus [sic], and he wanted to know how big her p-u-s-s-y was," the boy testified.
Another time, as the brothers and Jackson watched The Devil's Backbone, a 2001 Spanish movie about an orphanage for boys, the singer said "kept on saying 'clitoris'" whenever a female appeared on screen, the boy said.
Earlier Monday, the boy's 18-year-old sister wrapped up her testimony.
The woman, who repeatedly admitted to misstatements and lies under cross-examination by defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr., backtracked on statements that she knew nothing of her family's lawsuit against JCPenney over alleged sexual misconduct.
"I just remembered now when you said 'deposition,' " the sister said when Mesereau informed her that she sat in on depositions given in the case by her two brothers.
Mesereau pointed out another inconsistency with her testimony--she told jurors she'd only been to the Neverland wine cellar once, while she told sheriff's deputies she'd been there "many times." The defense maintains the accuser and his siblings were out of control at Jackson's home, and raided his liquor holdings for themselves.
At one point, the sister broke down as she listened to an audiotape made by an investigator working for then-Jackson attorney Mark Geragos. In the tape, made in 2003, post-Bashir, the woman describes Jackson as being her family's "father figure."
"I was just latching onto something because I don't know what a description of a father is," the woman testified. "I had 16 years of abuse. I don't know what it is. I just latched onto something."
During his two-day-long cross-examination of the sister, Mesereau tried to establish that her family has a pattern of making abuse and false-imprisonment claims. The sister claimed not to know much of the prior claims, some against her own father, either invoking the phrase, "I was young," or claiming she "never" talked about the cases, including the current one, with her mother or brothers.





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