Jackson's cousin recalls accuser watching porn

Michael Jackson's young cousin yesterday testified that he saw the singer's accuser Gavin Arvizo watching pornography while intimately touching himself.

Rijo Jackson, now 12, told the court he witnessed Arvizo, then 13, and his 11-year-old brother touching themselves while viewing nude women on television in a bedroom in Jackson's Neverland Ranch.

Rijo told the Santa Maria, California, trial: "I saw them go to the TV, turn to a channel that had naked girls, and they did nasty stuff."

The witness said he was scared by what he saw in either February or March 2003 and left the room immediately, to go to sleep in Jackson's bed.

There, Rijo said Jackson refused to believe what he'd seen: "He didn't believe it.

“He thought they were cool. He didn't think they would do that."

He also testified that he saw the Arvizo brothers drinking wine and stealing money.

Defence attorneys called Rijo as a witness in a move to prove Gavin Arvizo was sexually active at the time of Jackson's alleged molestation offences.

Jackson has pleaded not guilty to 10 felony charges of child molestation, administering an intoxicating agent and conspiracy involving allegations of child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion.

The trial continues.