Stepdad tells of distressed call from Jackson accuser's mother

The stepfather of Michael Jackson’s accuser testified today that the boy’s mother called him in distress from the pop star’s Neverland estate during the period in which prosecutors allege the family was held captive.

The stepfather took the stand in Michael Jackson’s child sex-abuse trial in Santa Maria, California, as the prosecution shifted from witnesses who alleged past improprieties by the singer back to the current allegations that led to charges that he molested the 13-year-old boy in February or March 2003 and conspired to hold his family captive to get them to rebut a TV documentary.