Asked about stories that he was abusive to his son as a child, Jackson said "Oh, that's a bunch of bull S. That's a bunch of bull S."
"You never physically harmed him?" King asked.
"Never. Never have. And I -- and I raised him just like you would raise your kids, you know? But harm Michael, for what? I have no reason. That's my son. I loved him and I still love him," Jackson said. Watch Joe Jackson deny abusing Michael »
He said he made no mistakes in raising his children.
"Michael was raised properly," he said. "He didn't run the streets like most of those other kids that was in his neighborhood."
While denying any child abuse, Joe Jackson's explanation did leave the question of spanking:
"The media keep hollering about saying that I beat Michael. That's not true. You know what this beat started -- beat started in the slavery days. Where they used to beat the slaves and then they used to torture them. That's where this beating started. These slave masters, and that's where that come from. But, hey, there's a lot of people in America, Larry, a lot of people in America spank their kids, you know? They say they don't, they're lying. They're lying. Now, Michael was never beaten by me, I've never beaten at all."
Joe Jackson denies abusing Michael - CNN.com
The man is sick and shouldn't be allowed close to the kids, neither any of his "friends"....
Why did he never made any statements like this when Michael was alive....we all know the answer!
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