Stop a youtuber for torturing and enameling his seven children who acted badly in the videos

"Fantastic Adventures" is a pretty YouTube channel created in Arizona, United States, where dozens of videos show the domestic adventures of a group of seven children and their adoptive mother, who have acted in various situations, mingling their daily lives to fantastic characters. and the superheroes. The hit channel aired a new episode a week, with 800,000 subscribers and more than 250 million views.

But it does not take moments, to an infrequent extent, the YouTube company has eliminated this chain from its platform. Behind these Internet videos, there was a perverse story: Machelle Hackney, the Youtuber who produced the episodes and often acted with them, was arrested, accused of mistreating and exploiting their adopted children.

According to what was known thanks to a denunciation from the older daughter of this woman, Hackney locked up her children in clothes for days, malnourished them and forced them to leave the school to devote themselves to the videos . In addition, when the children forgot what they had to say in the videos, Youtuber sprayed them with pepper spray.

All of these acts of child abuse and exploitation took place in Maricopa County, Arizona. When police arrived at Hackney's home, as a result of the naming of the eldest daughter, aged 19, found a child locked in a closet, dressed only in a diaper.

Traces of abuse

At the same time, the police found the other six children who appeared to be malnourished and underweight. The miners told the police that they were hungry and very thirsty, according to local media reports.
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The agents were surprised because while they were chatting with one of the guys, he took three bottles of water in less than 20 minutes. He also told the Maricopa police that his mother had punished him several times with pepper spray.

One of the boys said that he was hungry and that when the police offered him a packet of fries, he was scared by the fact that his mother would not let him eat that kind of thing, because the brakes were blocked.

The Arizona Department of Children's Safety (SIA) has abducted Hackney to the seven children.

The case investigators were able to make sure that everything the kids said was consistent, because in the youtuber's bedroom, they found two cans of pepper essence. In addition, the closet of this room had two important locks and tiled floor. There were no windows, toys or clothes there.

The badistants of the Department of Children have ensured that all children receive psychological badistance and a physical examination. The testimonies of children who have been able to transcend show that they have been victims of real torture situations. One of them said that he had spent many days without food or water locked in a closet. It was also common to spray them with pepper spray or to force them to take cold water baths.

Many times, these aberrations were performed on the children as punishment for misquoting the lines in the videos or for not performing any of their actions as planned by their adoptive mother.

Even one of the girls said that Hackney had sprayed pepper spray on his private parts, which had caused him severe pain for four or five days.

In addition, the children stated that they had been removed from school to work on the videos. "We have not been to school for years," the children told the police.

Hackney was arrested with her two grown children, Logan and Ryan Hackney. They were aware of the situation of abused children and even Ryan admitted to secretly bringing food to the children when they were locked in the closet.

Hackey denied to the police that she had locked up the children and stated that she had never used pepper spray nor ice baths. He confessed that she only made them stop in a corner, gave them chirps and put them in penance to punish them.