A former Michael Jackson employee testified on Friday that he once saw his boss groping Macaulay Culkin’s crotch, the second trial account of an intimate relationship between the Pop star and the child actor. Phillip LeMarque told jurors he was trying to serve Jackson a pre-dawn snack once in 1991 when he saw him in his arcade building playing a ‘Thriller’ video game with Culkin. Jackson was standing behind Culkin, holding him up with one hand while his other hand was in Culkin’s shorts.LeMarque, who with his wife worked at Neverland ranch for 10 months in 1991, is one of nine witnesses that prosecutors intend to call to try to prove that Jackson has a history of sexually abusing young boys and to support the account of a Los Angeles boy who says Jackson molested him in 2003. LeMarque said he was awakened by Jackson’s security staff about 3.30 a.m. and asked to prepare the snack for Jackson. He said Jackson and Culkin were alone in the arcade when he found them. ‘‘His right hand was holding the kid maybe mid-waist and the left hand was down into the (shorts),’’ said LeMarque.Jackson’s lead attorney, Thomas A. Mesereau Jr., challenged LeMarque’s honesty, noting that the former aide once asked whether he could get $500,000 for selling the story to tabloids. —LAT-WP
