A woman in Maricopa, Arizona, who runs the YouTube channel “Fantastic Adventures,” has been arrested and accused of physically abusing her seven adopted children.
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YouTube star in Arizona arrested for allegedly abusing 7 adoptive children
A YouTube star is accused of physically abusing her seven adoptive children, who told authorities they were pepper-sprayed, beaten and deprived of food and water if they didn’t participate in her videos.
Machelle Hobson, 48, whose YouTube channel “Fantastic Adventures” has garnered almost 800,000 subscribers and 250 million views since 2012, was arrested last Friday following a welfare check at her home in Maricopa, Arizona, about 35 miles south of downtown Phoenix, according to the complaint filed in Pinal County Superior Court.
A 19-year-old woman told the Maricopa Police Department on March 13 that her younger adoptive stepsister disclosed being abused by her mother, Hobson.
Officers then conducted a welfare check at Hobson’s residence, where they found seven children “who appeared to be malnourished, due to their pale completion, dark rings under their eyes, underweight, and they stated they were thirsty and hungry,” according to the probable cause statement.
Less than a million subscribers, but ABC "news" calls her a 'popular YouTuber'? Pull up your pants ABC, your bias is showing. It's embarrassing for everybody present. Just because that number is impressive to you does not mean it was a popular YouTube channel. Even unpopular YouTube channels tend to get far more views then ABC does on cable, even though YouTube promotes them in return for bribes. That's why ABC is pretending this channel was popular, because they know they can't compete with independent journalists on a level playing field so they are trying to conflate them with unpopular garbage content that nobody watches. This entire segment is basically just the ABC sellouts doing their impression of starship troopers, in this analogy ABC is the brain bug and people who actually pay attention are Neil Patrick Harris looking at ABC and saying "ITS AFRAID!!!!" STOP BEING SO AFRAID ABC. START DOING JOURNALISM AND YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR. KEEP DOING ACTIVISM AND YOU WILL BE BANKRUPT IN LESS THAN A DECADE. People just don't want what you are trying to sell. It's that simple, we are not as ignorant as you wish we were.
Evil mothers. This horror is against nature. Just so heartbreaking. God help us all. Hurry.
The adult sons look the same except one got a beard stubble
If she didn’t die in jail, i would’ve loved to see how she would do on the Steve Wilkos show
Fat slob just looking at her you can tell she is a bitch
What’s the point of adopting kids if it’s “so hard” to raise them?
That is so sad
Boy she be looking like a potato with a wig on
Did the kids die and also the mom
😩😩
That mom is just a sick, twisted b*tch
These kids are gonna commit suicide in the future and this mother’s gonna be wondering why.
This is why that COPPA law is now being enforced. I hope she’s in Hell
6.9 million subs? Nice.
toxic masculinity?
Her daughter called the cops to arrest her and her sons
She defended the kids
what a fucking bitch
More people on YouTube should be arrested
She's dead now… true justice isn't exclusive to the physical realm
She dead now…unlucky!
Just opened it back up fantastic adventures got to come back and daughter mother because your mother is kind of stupid and I'm going to find him and not the butter or mom I guess
That hag got what was coming to her. Poor kids. BTW, YOUTUBE, ENOUGH OF THESE DAMN KIDS CHANNELS!
Im just laughing
I worked with one of her sons delivering pizzas. He was always a nice guy to me and I worked with for at least 6 months. I even hung out with him a few times. When he quit I asked him what he was gonna do. He said im gonna quit to work on my dream of being Youtube Famous. If only I knew what he was talking about lmao. Sick bastard
Let's delete her Minecraft world as punishment!!!!!
uh.. you didn't quite blur their faces enough. so basiclly we can still see or even imagine their faces.
Why am I getting getting DaddyOFive vibes.
I’m mad😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿👿
Can't believe I actually subbed to this bitch
whips and nae nae’s
Being on social media is not about money it is about being safe and moral to others especially children and everyone.
Who ever abuses their children but not attacking people the age of him/her just like they do to their children are pussys straight up pussys these child abusers are just from hell send to earth to abuse and murder these poor children this is not OK and we all know that hopefully these kids get adopted by other parents that are not children beaters.
and what about Hopkins' adult sons? are they still in jail?
my opinion is that the mother acually made them join her channel so she can just get money and be so famous, and not share it with the kids!
why would she even do something like that?!?!?!?!?
WTF is wrong with people????
this is why i think that there shouldn't be family Youtube channels. even if the aren't physically abused the children might not like a camera being shoved in their face 24/7.
Umm you censored it cause I know his face
Where are they 🥺😩
0:49 See? We're trapped! 🤣
I HATE FHILD ABUSES
Those adventures…..uuuhhhm…
not so fantastic
You never know what’s behind closed doors 😢
Now see here im 20 years old waiting for my forever family. And now im even more afraid of getting a mother like that. We just want a family that loves us💔 😭why do people hurt people that are innocent smh she will reap what she sowed.
*Gasp*……
This is like a throw back to the silent movie era when children were 'kept' in substandard care and abused behind the scenes.