One of the boys was put in a special group home, but the other 3 were adopted into a loving home.
Saturday, a fundraiser was held to help the family raise enough money for a down payment on a bigger home.
Healthy and happy today, at the free concert at Sharon Baptist Church in Wynnefield Heights, the Jackson boys look nothing like they did 7 years ago: emaciated and malnourished at the hands of their former adoptive parents.
But they are no longer the Jackson boys; they're now the Parrish boys with adoptive parents Amber and James and the couple's biological son C.J.
With Treshawn in college and Michael and Terrel thriving, the future is bright now. But it wasn't always so.
It was in 2003 when a neighbor to the Jackson boys in Collingswood, New Jersey discovered the eldest brother Bruce rooting through trash for scraps of food. Then the story of abuse and neglect at the hands their former adoptive parents Raymond and Vanessa Jackson unfolded. Things are much better these days.
Terrell was home sick with a bug and couldn't make the event, but the rest of the Parrishes spent Saturday evening enjoying gospel music. The concert was free, but donations were collected at the door to help the Parrish family raise money for a new home because saying the family says it has outgrown their 3-bedroom log house.
Their father says more space will help them as they grow into their own.
There's no word yet where the Parrishes would like to move if they raise the money, but they're hoping to move next summer and the funds would help with a down payment.
