Tiffany Smith, mother of the American youtuber Piper Rockelle, who has more than 10 million followers, will answer in court for the allegations of emotional, physical and sexual abuse made by 11 adolescents who participated in her daughter’s videos and did not they paid. According to NBC, the trial, which was supposed to start Monday but has been postponed until November, will help shed light on the lucrative but unregulated world of child labor on platforms like YouTube.
All the complainants are teenagers. who made appearances in Rockelle’s videos, now 15 years old, between 2017 and 2021, a period in which the youtuber will have won between 4.2 million (3.8 million euros) and 7.5 million dollars (6.8 million euros) per year in online advertising alone, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times. None of them were paid for these actions, but they also admit that they were not promised any payment.
In the complaint filed in January 2022, the teens allege that Tiffany Smith, mother of Piper Rockelle, intentionally mocked them.emotional stress“, exercising a position of “care and control” over them during the production of content for his daughter’s channel. Some even accuse Smith of having physically and emotionally assaulted them and speak of “harassment, harassment and abuse.”
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Source: Observadora
