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Allegations of abuse disproven

The Jacksons' problems with DYFS trace back to 2008 when their adopted two-year-old son Joshua died of a seizure. The Jacksons had provided foster care to several medically at-risk children while living in Oklahoma and adopted Joshua, who was born with birth defects and a drug addiction.

According to John Jackson, when possible abuse of Chaya emerged, a hospital social worker claimed Joshua had died at home under suspicious circumstances and was cremated rapidly so his death could not be investigated.

John Jackson replies that Joshua was cremated only after his body was examined and released by a medical examiner, and the family was cleared of any wrongdoing by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division.

"He died of a seizure disorder in the hospital," said Jackson, who asserted in a court document that Joshua died at St. Clare's Hospital in Dover, N.J. The Army major then observed that, as an active duty serviceman, he has no permanent home.

"I [cremated Joshua] so we can take him with us. When we have a permanent home he will be buried there, with us."

After the Jacksons brought two-year-old Chaya to Morristown Memorial Hospital with a high fever and heavy sweating, they were accused of "medical neglect, malnourishment and salt poisoning," said Jackson. He added that the hospital "manufactured evidence" of broken bones to prove Chaya had been physically abused.

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The hospital found that Chaya was very small for her age and had abnormally high levels of salt in her blood. X-rays revealed evidence of a healed fracture in the wrist.

"All five children were taken away, right away, " said Meyer. The five children include the Jacksons' three natural children, 13-year-old John Jr., 10-year-old Cameron, 9-year-old Chavon, and two adopted children, four-year-old Jana and Chaya. The two adopted children are daughters of a cousin of Carolyn Jackson, and were classified as medically at-risk when they were adopted. Chaya, in particular, has not grown in length since she was one year old, and has been diagnosed with "failure to thrive."

"When the kids were in custody, they said 'Yes, we were spanked,' and they quoted the Bible, 'Spare the rod, spoil the child.' So DYFS said they were beaten with rods and are 'over-religious,' and took their Bibles away," said Meyer.

In addition to physical abuse, the Jacksons have been accused of abusing the children through corporal punishment and depriving them of TV and video games, and of harming their social development through home schooling.

According to Meyer, a pediatric nephrologist has found that Chaya's excessive salt is caused by a medical condition called hypernatremia, not by "salt poisoning." Another specialist will testify that Chaya's broken bone may have occurred at birth, not resulting from abuse by the Jacksons.

"Many of the reasons they took the children in the first place have been disproven," Meyer added. "Now the case is just about spanking."