Los Angeles - Prosecutors pursuing Michael Jackson on child sex charges want to tell jurors of further incendiary claims that the star molested another boy 12 years ago, court documents showed Wednesday.
In a last-ditch bid to introduce what Jackson's lawyers dismissed as "inflammatory" and "prejudicial" evidence, prosecutors sought to allow a guard to testify that he brought the "sweaty" and "aroused" singer a jar of Vaseline while he was in his bedroom with a 12- or 13-year-old youth.
District Attorney Tom Sneddon asked trial Judge Rodney Melville for permission to call former Neverland Ranch security guard Kassim Abdool to corroborate shocking testimony by another guard given earlier this month.
"Jackson called Abdool and asked him to go to Jackson's car and get a jar of Vaseline from the centre console of the vehicle and bring it to his bedroom," Sneddon wrote in documents released by the court on Wednesday.
Jackson appeared aroused
"When Jackson opened the door to his bedroom, Jackson was wearing only his pyjama bottoms, appeared sweaty, aroused and Abdool observed Jackson to have an erection under his pyjama bottoms," Sneddon continued.
"There was a young boy, who he believed was (the teenager who made sex abuse claims against Jackson later in 1993) in the bedroom with Mr Jackson," the prosecutor said.