If you’ve been following the latest chapter in the Jackson family saga, then you know that the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has been conducting an investigation into an incident that occurred at the Jackson family compound in Encino, California.
According to TMZ, DFCS were called to the home on Monday (Mar. 1) after private security on the property said they heard a strange noise coming from the 2nd floor of the house. After an investigating, they determined that Jermaine’s 13-year-old son Jaafar tried to shock Michael Jackson’s youngest boy, Blanket, with a stun gun that he purchased over the Internet using a Visa gift card that he bought at a supermarket.
According to TMZ, the late Michael Jackson’s older brother Jermaine Jackson filed for divorce from Alejandra Jackson in 2004. The couple fought bitterly over custody of the children. It was decided that their two children Jaafar, 13, and Jermajesty, 11, would live at the compound with Katherine and their mother. Alejandra contends Jermaine asked for this odd living arrangement because he did not want to pay child support.
At some point Alejandra moved out of the house leaving the two boys to be raised by Katherine, along with Alejandra’s other two kids she had with Michael and Jermaine’s younger brother, Randy.
In addition to the four boys, there’s another kid named Dante whom Jermaine adopted, and Michael’s 3 kids, Paris, Blanket and Michael II. That’s 8 precocious kids living with an elderly woman in a rambling 12 bedroom, 25 bathroom home.
Something was bound to happen.
Katherine denied any of the children were in danger, but DCFS has been out to the home 3 times in as many days to interview the children and the adults separately about the stun gun incident.
Boys will be boys, but in this case, boys need adult supervision and it’s clear that they are not getting that in the Jackson home. Furthermore, Katherine Jackson is too old to run behind those kids. So who is watching them? And where was Jacko’s longtime nanny, Grace?
