8 Passengers YouTube channel under fire for harsh child punishment 8 Passengers, YouTubePopular YouTube family channel \u20188 Passengers\u2019 is coming under fire from fans after their 15-year-old son detailed the harsh punishment he\u2019d been given for pulling a prank on his little brother. 8 Passengers, as the channel has been so named, details the daily lives of the Franke family and their six children. Known for her strict parenting, mother Ruby Franke is facing mass backlash from critics due to a video posted in late May, titled \u201cWhat We Haven\u2019t Told You,\u201d which featured a shocking confession from her oldest son, Chad. In the video, Chad admitted that he\u2019d been forced to sleep in their basement on a bean bag chair for seven months as punishment for tricking his little brother into thinking the family was going to Disney Land. \u201cMy bedroom was taken away for seven months and then you gave it back like, a couple of weeks ago,\u201d Chad revealed. \u201cI\u2019ve been sleeping on a beanbag since October. They gave my room back two weeks ago.\u201d https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAo73oMjUQI\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link \u201cI woke Russell up at two in the morning and told him that we\u2019re going to Disney Land and he had to pack,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe made his bed all neatly and packed his clothes in the suitcase. He walked out the door and I\u2019m like, \u2018Russell\u2026 we\u2019re not going to Disney Land.\u2019 He started crying and hitting me.\u201d Ruby clarified that his Disney Land prank wasn\u2019t the only reason for his harsh punishment, citing an instance where Chad had allegedly pointed a BB gun at Russell\u2019s face and purportedly left him hanging on a basketball rim. (Topic begins at 8:14) Despite the family laughing at this exchange, many commenters haven\u2019t found the punishment funny, with users sounding off in alarm at what many feel to be abuse. \u201cShe is sick,\u201d one commenter wrote on a re-uploaded version of the now-deleted video. \u201cHer kids will end up needing therapy \u2018cause of her.\u201d \u201cShe is not \u2018filming\u2019 her life,\u201d another argued. \u201cShe is publicly embarrassing her KIDS. \u2026If I was her child, I would be so embarrassed to say she was my mom. SO TOXIC!\u201d A petition has since been created asking that local Child Protective Services look into the household, which boasts over 3,700 signatures at the time of writing. Ruby has yet to speak out on the matter, although she has deleted several videos from the 8 Passengers YouTube channel, including this one that\u2019s caused a lot of controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
8 Passengers YouTube channel under fire for harsh child punishment 8 Passengers, YouTubePopular YouTube family channel \u20188 Passengers\u2019 is coming under fire from fans after their 15-year-old son detailed the harsh punishment he\u2019d been given for pulling a prank on his little brother. 8 Passengers, as the channel has been so named, details the daily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}