'Jackson showered with boy'
2005-04-05 21:50
Santa Maria - Embattled Michael Jackson's former maid on Tuesday told his trial jury how she once caught the superstar in the shower with a seven or eight-year-old Australian boy.
"I walked in and they were in the shower," she told Jackson's child molestation trial, describing an alleged incident in 1989 when she surprised the star in the bathroom.
"When I saw it I saw clothes on the floor by the shower... underwear," she said adding that she recognised Jackson's and the boy's undercothes.
In potentially damning testimony, the ex-housekeeper also claimed children frequently slept in Jackson's bedroom at his Neverland Ranch and that she found their clothes discarded in the room.
She said there were often "little kids' clothes on the bedroom floor" and that there was nothing to suggest the boys had slept anywhere but in Jackson's bed.
Jackson is accused of molesting a then 13-year-old boy in his bedroom at the fantasy-style ranch two years ago.
He has denied 10 charges that could see him jailed for up to 20 years if convicted.
- AFP