YouTube vloggers Ruby and Kevin Franke furiously denied accusations of child abuse after they revealed their son had been sleeping on a bean bag for months.
The popular social media family, that hail from Utah in the United States, run a wide-reaching YouTube channel called 8 Passengers where they document the ins and outs of family life.
They boast over 2.46 million subscribers that tune in to watch videos of the couple and their six children, Shari, 17, Chad, 15, Abby, 13, Julie, 11, Russell, 8, and Eve, 6.
In one particular clip, which has since been deleted, the couple's teenage son Chad spoke about a punishment he had received from his parents.
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