Jackson accuser’s bro testifies

The 14-year old brother of Michael Jackson’s accuser described the molestation allegations against the singer for the first time, saying he saw Jackson touching his brother as the boy slept on the singer’s bed. He said that 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. “I didn’t know what to do,” the witness said, adding that he watched both incidents for a few seconds before going to a guest room. The defense says the allegations are a fiction created by the children’s mother in an attempt to extort money from the pop star. The accuser’s brother faced more questioning Tuesday. The boy said the molestations occurred sometime after Jackson had shown him and his brother sexually explicit magazines kept in a suitcase in his bedroom. District Attorney Tom Sneddon projected on a courtroom screen the covers of magazines, including one called Barely Legal that depicted a young woman with her breasts exposed. Jackson, 46, is accused of molesting a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland, 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. The brother also described Jackson as making crude sexual jokes in their presence. — AFP