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Thu 11 Nov 2002Jackson says he's sorry, visits ZooUS: The singer Michael Jackson apologised yesterday for dangling a baby (right), said to be his, out of the fourth-floor window of a Berlin hotel on Tuesday, apparently to show him to fans."I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children," he said in a statement.Child welfare experts in the United States were appalled by the incident, in which Jackson briefly held the baby, named Prince Michael II, by one hand from a fourth-storey window of the Adlon Hotel near the Brandenburg Gate.