She’s been known to be overbearing and more than a bit snippy with her allegedly adulterous husband, Jon, but does Kate Gosselin also turn her rage in on her own children?

At least one former Gosselin Family staffer says “absolutely.”

A one-time employee of Jon and Kate Gosselin, troubled stars of the TLC reality series Jon & Kate Plus 8, claims the outspoken mama of multiples is a “shortfused” tyrant who routinely violently disciplines her eight children when the cameras aren’t rolling.

In the June 22 issue of The National Enquirer, the ex-staffer, who worked for the Gosselins for more than a year before recently resigning, claims they have witnessed Kate using corporal punishment on the couple’s 8-year-old twins and 5-year-old sextuplets.

“When one of the boys closed a door on another one once, Kate got in their faces and yelled, ‘You tell me the truth about what happened!” the insider says, recalling one incident where Gosselin allegedly battered her children.

“The children just stood there terrified. Then she dragged one of the boys into the bathroom and spanked him five or six times with a large plastic spoon.”

The staffer adds, “You could hear Kate forcefully whacking the child and the child screaming at the top of his lungs. People told me it happened more than once, but it was off-camera because Kate didn’t want it in the show.”

Thoughts on this? Are any of you anti-spanking?