WASHINGTON (AFP) - YouTube has removed a channel that featured children playing with toy guns and whistling after police arrested their adoptive mother for allegedly starving them, locking them in closets and pepper-spraying them.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - YouTube has removed a channel that featured children playing with toy guns and whistling after police arrested their adoptive mother for allegedly starving them, locking them in closets and pepper-spraying them.The seven adopted children told investigators of"having to participate" in the YouTube shows, a court document says.
"They further stated this is one of the reasons their mom took them out of school so they can keep filming their series and they mentioned they have not been in school for years." The youngsters were aged between six and 15. They were also"locked in the closet for days at a time" and two said they were sprayed or pinched in the genitals, it added.Arrested last week, Machelle Hackney, 47, - known as Machelle Hobson on her channel - was charged with seven counts of child abuse, two counts of child molestation, five counts of unlawful imprisonment and seven counts of child neglect.
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