Michael is innocent, say Jackson’s parents

MICHAEL JACKSON’S parents have insisted their son is innocent of child sex abuse allegations and promised to adopt his children if he loses custody of them.

Joe and Katherine Jackson said they would fight any attempt by the authorities to have his three children removed from the family.

They said prosecutors were trying to "humiliate" their pop star son.

In an interview to be screened on ITV1 on Monday, Mr Jackson said: "We're not going to let nobody take those kids. They're Michael's kids. They has no right to take those kids."

Jackson has two children, Prince Michael I, six, and Paris, five, from his three-year marriage to Debbie Rowe.

The mother of his third child, Prince Michael II, born in 2002, has never been made public. Thriller star Jackson, 45, has called sex abuse claims made against him by a teenage cancer survivor a "big lie".

Doubts about his accuser's credibility have been raised in recent days social workers in California investigated the same claims earlier this year and called them "unfounded". But prosecutors have vowed to press on.