Ruby Franke, the YouTube mommy blogger behind the channel 8 Passengers, was arrested last week after her 12-year-old son climbed out a window and ran to a neighbor's house asking for food and water.
They're divorced and haven't been living together. That's not to say he definitely didn't know, he knew about some pretty awful treatment in the past, but it's believable that he didn't know what's going on now.