The children told police their adoptive mother starved, beat and pepper sprayed them when they failed to follow direction for videos, officials said.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.An Arizona mother is accused of abusing her seven adopted children to get them to perform for her YouTube channel.Police said Hackney withheld food and water, restricted restroom access, beat and pepper-sprayed the children when they failed to follow direction for YouTube videos, according to a probable cause statement from the Maricopa Police Department.
Hackney has been charged with seven counts of child abuse, five counts of unlawful imprisonment and two counts of child molestation. Jail records show she was arraigned Tuesday and held without bond.The family's YouTube channel, which has 700,800 followers and more than 242 million views, features the adopted children in different sketch videos. The children told police they were taken out of school in order to make videos.
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