Former Jackson maid says she saw singer showering with boy
Woman testifies she never saw sexual contact
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 A former Jackson maid made a pair of accusations against the pop star.
 A son of a former Michael Jackson aide accused the pop star of molesting him.
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SANTA MARIA, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's former personal maid testified Tuesday that she saw the pop star showering and laughing with a young boy at Neverland Ranch -- with their underwear lying outside the shower door.
However, the woman said that in the years she worked for Jackson, she never saw him touch a child sexually, although his behavior did make her uncomfortable and "concerned" for her own preteen son, who often came to work with her at Jackson's suggestion.
Her son testified Monday that he had been fondled by Jackson on three occasions but did not tell his mother until years afterward. (Monday's testimony)
Both the mother and son in 1996 reached an out-of-court financial settlement with Jackson in which the entertainer denied wrongdoing.
Taking the stand at Jackson's child molestation trial, the former maid also said child movie star Macaulay Culkin stayed alone with Jackson in his bedroom when he visited for extended periods, though she did not say she saw any improper contact between the two.
The woman said the boy she saw showering with Jackson was about 8 years old when he started staying at Neverland for weeks at a time over about a year, starting in 1989. She said he would sleep overnight in Jackson's bedroom suite, and, when she went to change the linen, she would find only one of the two beds in the suite had been used.
The 46-year-old singer is accused of molesting a boy -- now 15 years old -- at Neverland Ranch, giving him alcohol and conspiring to hold the boy's family captive in 2003.
Jackson has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The woman, who worked for Jackson from 1986 until 1991 and had a key to his bedroom, is testifying as part of prosecutors' efforts to prove the pop star had a pattern of grooming young boys for sexual abuse.
Maid: Jackson encouraged her to bring son
In her testimony Tuesday, the former maid described hearing laughter coming from the bathroom in Jackson's suite. When she walked inside, water was running, the radio was playing and she could see figures through the shower door, although the door itself was too cloudy to see through.
She said she identified the voices as Jackson and the boy. Because her job was to launder their clothes, she also said she could identify that the underwear she saw on the floor belonged to them.
But fearing that Jackson would become angry if he knew she had come into the bathroom, she said she left and never told him she had been there.
She said Jackson encouraged her to bring her own then-preteen son with her when she came to work. She testified that she did, even though she "was concerned for my son" because she "saw little things before with other kids."
Her son told jurors Monday that following each of the three alleged fondling incidents, Jackson gave him a $100 bill and told him not to tell his mother about the money.
His mother testified Tuesday that she found two $100 bills in her son's pocket one day after they left a Los Angeles apartment where Jackson lived prior to buying Neverland. She said her son told her that the money was a "secret" and that "Michael told me it was for me and not to tell you."
She also said she once found her son sitting on Jackson's lap and pulled him off. On another occasion, she said she found the two of them lying together in a sleeping bag and ordered her son to come out. He refused, she said.
When she would take the boy to work with her, she would tell him to stay downstairs because she knew Jackson was upstairs.
"I told my son not to go with him," she said.
Civil settlement introduced to jury
During his testimony, the son said he did not tell his mother, or anyone else, that anything had happened with Jackson until 1993, when he was drawn into a criminal investigation and civil suit stemming from allegations by a 13-year-old boy that Jackson had molested him.
Contacted by investigators, the son disclosed the alleged incidents and went into counseling, where he eventually told his mother that he had been molested by Jackson. However, both mother and son said they never discussed the details of what had happened.
The boy's mother also gave a deposition in a civil suit brought by Jackson's 1993 accuser, in which she said she never saw anyone molesting boys at Neverland.
Shortly before the deposition, the mother said she was paid $20,000 by the syndicated TV show "Hard Copy" to talk about her time at Neverland and provide photographs showing her with several of the animals in Jackson's zoo.
The 1993 accuser's civil suit against Jackson was settled out of court in 1994, at which point the boy stopped cooperating with authorities and the criminal probe ended. Several months later, the former maid began the process of filing suit against Jackson on behalf of her and her son, according to the attorney who represented them.
Chris Kallman said that in late 1994 or early 1995, he prepared a complaint for suit against Jackson and contacted his legal team, then led by prominent attorney Johnny Cochran.
"They didn't want us to do that," Kallman said, a remark that was stricken after a defense objection. A settlement was signed in 1996, before any suit was filed, he said.
Kallman did not disclose how much money changed hands; Santa Barbara County Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville had earlier ruled that jurors could hear that settlements had been reached, but not the amount.
After the criminal probe of Jackson was derailed by the civil settlement in 1993, California lawmakers gave prosecutors the power to compel sexual abuse victims to testify if they refused to do so voluntarily.
Kallman said the settlement reached between Jackson and his former maid and her son contained a confidentiality agreement. While it did not preclude the boy from talking to law enforcement officials, the settlement required Kallman to notify Jackson's attorneys five days before the boy talked to authorities, he said.
Kallman said that notice was given before the former maid's son was reinterviewed in 2004, as part of the latest probe of Jackson that led to his indictment.
Kallman also said Jackson denied any wrongdoing in the settlement document, which also contained language noting that the pop star had a financial interest in protecting his name and image.
CNN's Dree De Clamecy contributed to this report.
