World News 15-04-2005 Michael Jackson Licked My Son`s Head who: Michael Jackson what: Licked Gavin Arvizo`s head, boy`s mother tells abuse trial where: Santa Maria, California when: Wednesday snippet: "The mum of Michael Jackson`s accuser says she caught the singer licking her sleeping son," reports The Sun. "The woman, 37, claimed the incident happened on a jet from Miami in 2003." "At that time when everyone had fallen asleep, I had gotten up, I thought this was my chance to look and see what was going on back there," Gavin Arvizo`s mother, Janet, told the court, choking back her sobs. "I saw Michael licking his head, over and over. I thought I was seeing things." Janet Arvizo said that following the broadcast of Martin Bashir`s documentary, Living with Michael Jackson, the accused "had summoned the family to take part in a Miami press conference," explains The Guardian. "The 46-year-old singer and his associates, she said, told her that killers were looking for her children and they would only be safe if they did what he said." "He spoke in a very normal way, in a male voice," she said, "telling us that we were in danger, that he was a father figure, that he knew what to do in this situation because he had read hundreds of books on psychology." She claims Jackson`s aides kidnapped her family and planned to whisk them away to Brazil. Furthermore, she says death threats were levelled at her parents and boyfriend. Her testimony follows the appearance in court of June Chandler, whose family received a multi-million dollar payout from Jackson a decade ago following accusations that her son Jordy had been molested by the Neverland star. Most notably, she told the court in Santa Maria, California, "that during a trip to Las Vegas Jackson had tearfully asked why she would not allow her son Jordy to sleep in his bed," reports The Scotsman. "[Michael Jackson] was sobbing and crying, shaking and trembling," she said. "He said, `You don’t trust me? We`re a family... Jordy is having fun. Why can`t he sleep in my bed? There`s nothing wrong. There`s nothing going on.`" Jordy Chandler is now 25 and said to be living abroad and his mother admitted she had not spoken to him for 11 years. Gavin Arvizo, now 15, has told the court that Jackson sexually assaulted him. [... more]

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