Fantastic Adventures scandal

The Fantastic Adventures scandal was a 2019 scandal in involving the YouTube channel Fantastic Adventures, run by Machelle Hackney Hobson of Maricopa, Arizona, United States. The scandal began when one of Hobson's biological children contacted the police after witnessing her adopted siblings (Felipe, Summer, Elijah, Hailey, Jacob, Grayson and one unidentified child) being systematically abused by her mother. Fantastic Adventures gained worldwide media attention because of Hobson's motive of abuse towards the adopted children.
Background.
Machelle Hackney Hobson's YouTube channel, Fantastic Adventures, was created on June 17, 2012, and ultimately gained 800,726 subscribers. In 2011, Hobson's former husband had stated that she pulled their daughter Megan from school in order to take care of her adopted children. In 2017, a child that was involved in Hobson's videos was seen streaking through the neighborhood, raising suspicions among the neighbors.
On March 13, 2019, Megan reported her mother to police. The report came after many of Hobson's neighbors had reported suspicious activity regarding Fantastic Adventures and called the Department of Child Safety (DCS) more than fifteen times to her house. Her biological siblings, Logan and Ryan, were also arrested but later, not charged as they are not involved in the abuse and their biological father had withdrawn money from his wife's bank account in retaliation for the abuse of the adoptive children. One of the brothers even admitted that they told police about the abuse. According to Hobson's Instagram account, one of her adopted daughters, Hailey, was legally blind.
Death.
Hobson died in a Scottsdale hospital on November 12, 2019, having been released from jail in June and declared not competent to stand trial in August. All seven children were removed from the home and placed into foster care after Hobson's death, and Fantastic Adventures's earnings were sent to the children who had appeared on the channel. As of 2021, the whereabouts of the seven adoptive children, Mr. Hobson and the biological children (Megan, Logan and Ryan) remains unknown.