Michael Jackson suffered a blow in his child-molestation trial on Thursday (March 17) when a former housekeeper testified that she had seen a number of children in an intoxicated state at his Neverland Ranch.

Analysts have pointed out that proof of underage drinking at Neverland would increase the likelihood of jurors believing that the singer provided alcohol to minors with the intent to molest them. His accuser claims Jackson gave him wine in a soda can and called it "Jesus juice" (see "More Graphic Details Emerge In Jackson Case").

Kiki Fournier, who worked at Neverland from 1991 to 2003, took the stand somewhat reluctantly, saying she didn't want to be there and certainly didn't want to be the center of attention. But since the span of her employment covered both the 1993 case and this one, she was in a position to witness a number of children who were invited for extended stays at Neverland, including Macaulay Culkin, Wade Robson and the boy at the center of the 1993 case (see "Macaulay Culkin, Corey Feldman To Testify In Jackson Case?").

Fournier testified that she observed a pattern with the children invited over — that they all were between the ages of 10 and 13, and they all exhibited changes in behavior during the course of their stays. She said the behavior of the current accuser and his younger brother was "typical" of all these boys: They started out neat and polite, she said, and then got rowdy and messy, because there were no rules. The only time Jackson would step in to discipline any children, she said, would be to stop food fights at the table and candy fights in the theater.

She testified that she'd seen children intoxicated at Neverland in Jackson's presence, and that she'd seen Jackson intoxicated around children as well. She described one incident in which four or five children were eating with Jackson, and three were intoxicated. In the absence of an authority figure, she said, "these children became wild. It was like Pinocchio's Pleasure Island."

KNBC-TV weatherman and comedian Fritz Coleman also testified Thursday, saying that he met the accuser and his family when they attended a comedy camp. Finding the children "personable, polite, charismatic," he told prosecutor Ron Zonen that although they never asked him to, he "adopted" the family one Christmas, buying them a few hundred dollars' worth of gifts. He described the family, who lived in a one-room apartment, as "very thankful. ... I got the feeling this might have been the only Christmas they would have."

Coleman said the family never directly asked him for money or for anything else, even though he visited the accuser multiple times when he was hospitalized for cancer. On cross-examination, Coleman said he'd heard the boy's father had asked comedian George Lopez for money.

(CBS News contributed to this report.)

For full coverage of the Michael Jackson case, see "Michael Jackson Accused."