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Parenting Advice YouTuber And Influencer Jailed For Child Abuse

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Last updated: February 21, 2024 8:38 pm
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A former YouTuber who gave parenting advice online has been jailed for up to 30 years after she admitted to physically and emotionally abusing her children.

Ruby Franke, a mother of six from Utah who gave parenting tips via a once-popular video blog called “8 Passengers”, convinced her two youngest children that they were evil, possessed and needed to be punished to repent.

The 42-year-old and her business partner, mental health counsellor Jodi Hildebrandt, pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated child abuse.

In her plea deal, Franke admitted to kicking her son while wearing boots, holding his head underwater and closing off his mouth and nose with her hands.

She and Hildebrandt admitted they also forced the boy into hours of physical labour in the summer heat without much food or water – causing dehydration and blistering sunburns.

According to emergency call records, Franke’s 12-year-old son escaped through a window of Hildebrandt’s house, in the southern Utah city of Ivins, in August and asked a neighbour to call the police.

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He was thin, covered in wounds and had duct tape around his ankles and wrists.

According to a search warrant, the boy told officers that Hildebrandt had used cayenne pepper and honey to dress his cuts.

The two women were arrested at Hildebrandt’s home and were each charged with six felony counts of aggravated child abuse.

Franke pleaded guilty to four of her six charges and not guilty to two at a hearing in December, in a plea deal that was accepted by the court.

At her sentencing hearing, Franke told her children, who had not turned up to see their mother jailed: “I’ll never stop crying for hurting your tender souls.

“My willingness to sacrifice all for you was masterfully manipulated into something very ugly. I took from you all that was soft and safe and good.”

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