There are calls for a parenting influencer who "re-homed" her autistic adopted son to lose her social media deals.
Myka Stauffer, 32, took to YouTube last week to reveal that the young boy she had adopted from China, Huxley, has been rehomed after she and her husband James were unable to meet his special needs.
Watch her make the controversial announcement below:Stauffer, who has four biological children, has now hit back at the international condemnation of her decision to rehome Huxley, whose adoption process she widely documented on her popular YouTube channel.
"We would never just give up a child with special needs, this is a personal matter to Hux. It had nothing to do with he just had Autism," Stauffer wrote on YouTube, defending her decision to rehome him.
"Multiple scary things happened inside the home towards our other children, and if these events happened with one of my biological kids, after all the help and after the behaviors we witnessed, sadly we would have no other choice then to seek help and get their needs met."
The 32-year-old said Huxley "wanted this decision 100%" adding she "saw" it when he was with his new "family" because the child is non-verbal.
"He constantly chose them and signed and showed tons of emotion to show us and let us know he wanted this," she said.
However, Stauffer's attempts to well her critics did not go down well either.
One wrote: "Oh yes. Non verbal [sic] Huxley told you I don't want to live with you guys no more send me to these strangers so that I can be traumatized even more in my little life."
A second remarked: "Its [sic] so disgusting. Why adopt a child you knew was going to have problems just to toss them away."
A third then slammed the YouTuber for the sinister implications of her post: "Obviously having a child with disabilities is incredibly challenging and can certainly present difficulties with other children but to say that this kid is some kind of sinister, dangerous figure is so irresponsible."
This comes as multiple others accused the 32-year-old of adopting Huxley in the first place to increase the popularity of her YouTube channel.
One user wrote: “@MykaStauffer adopted an autistic child from China and after years of having him, she gave him up for adoption because he had 'bad behavior' after using him for $$$ on her YouTube channel."
Another added: "She adopted a child for views and then got rid of him and treated him like a brand deal."
Now there are widespread calls for Stauffer to have her social media deals removed, with angry social media users promoting the hashtag #cancelstauffers.
Fabletics, a sportswear brand, has been inundated with calls to remove their partnership with the 32-year-old.
One Twitter user wrote: "@Fabletics Please read the comments regarding Myka Stauffer representing your brand! #justiceforhuxley #cancelthestauffers."
Others are simply listing the brands the family work with in the hope that they will cancel their deals with the family.
A third simply wrote: "The tears myka and her husband are crying are crocodile tears. They are not crying because they miss Huxley they are crying because they got caught and they're about to get canceled and lose all their money. #cancelthestauffers"
The family adopted Huxley back in 2017, dedicating a video of his adoption to "orphans around the world".
