Ice baths, bumps and pepper spray: A woman tortured her seven adopted children to succeed on YouTube

The brothers who appear in the happy series of the family comedy "Fantastic adventures", which got 800,000 subscribers and hundreds of millions of visits on YouTube, they waste fear and joie de vivre. They cast spells, prepare cookies and make fun and tender competitions.

But when the camera was not filming, the boys adopted children they suffered from hunger, they were locked up for days in a cabinet with tiled floor they were sprayed with pepper gas and beaten with belts, brushes and hangers. They were forced to take ice baths. They had to hold their arms over their head from dawn until midnight.

The perpetrator of the torture and ill-treatment was his adoptive mother, Machelle Hackney, 48, who runs the "Fantastic Adventures" channel, which More than 250 million visits. The channel debuted in 2012 and features 10 to 15 minute videos of guys participating in various fantastic scenarios, including zombies, superheroes and more. Several new videos appear each month. At the end of the segments, the children look to the camera and ask viewers to like and subscribe.

Hackney was arrested Friday at her home in Maricopa, Arizona, together with their two biological children. She has been charged with badual abuse of a child, abuse, illegal imprisonment and neglect of a child. Their adult children, Logan and Ryan Hackney, are being prosecuted for failing to report the facts. The biological daughter of the woman is the one who denounced his mother on March 13th.

The boys had hunger and thirst While the police were chatting with one of the boys, he drank three bottles of water in just 20 minutes but did not want to eat the fries the officer had offered him, lest his mother could feel his breath. In addition, they badured that they would not have gone to school for years.

YouTube demonetized the channel as soon as the company learned of the arrest of its creator.