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Ruby Franke, the mother of six behind the family YouTube channel "8 Passengers," has been charged with six counts of felony child abuse by the Washington County Attorney in Utah, a spokesperson for the attorney’s office confirmed to NBC News on Tuesday.

Franke and her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, were arrested last week after law enforcement found Franke’s 12-year-old son emaciated and with open wounds and duct tape on his wrists and ankles. The boy had climbed out of a window of Hildebrandt’s home and ran to a neighbor house for help, according to a probable cause affidavit acquired by NBC News.

Franke’s 10-year-old daughter was found at Hildebrandt’s home in a similar malnourished condition, according to the affidavit. Officials said the condition of the children was so severe that they were transported to a local area hospital. Franke’s other four children were taken into the care of Utah’s Division of Child and Family Services.

Hildebrandt was also charged with six counts of felony child abuse. Each count carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years and a fine of up to $10,000, the county attorney told NBC News in an emailed statement.

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[–] Son_of_dad 141 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Monstrous woman, and sadly she infected many dumb mothers with her bullshit.

[–] TruTollTroll 8 points 10 months ago

What's even crazier, from some of what I have seen online, she was/is Mormon and many/good portion of her viewers seem to be too.. they all claim this lifestyle as normal and it is quite frankly scary and jarring to see some of the comments saying she was just a 'strict parent'.

[–] NatakuNox 103 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just reading about some of her, "parenting advice" it was obvious that she was a terrible person. And to think some people actually listened to her

[–] xkforce 55 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Do you have an example? I dont really want to go rooting around in that rabbit hole trying to find out.

[–] marron12 63 points 10 months ago (3 children)

She threw their homework and other things in the trash. Said they had until the end of the day to pay cash or do chores to get it back so they could learn the real value of their things.

She took her son's bed away for seven months, apparently because he played a prank on his brother.

Oh, and the kids had to make their own school lunch in the morning. The school calls one day because her 6 year old daughter didn't have any food. She let the girl go hungry. Quote:

My hope is that she’ll be hungry and come home and go, ‘oh man, that was really painful, being hungry all day. I will make sure to always have lunch with me.

[–] Son_of_dad 37 points 10 months ago

Having grown up poor, nothing pains me more than the idea of a kid, especially my kid being hungry or cold. This woman is a monster.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants 1 points 10 months ago

She sounds like she has "I don't really gie a fuck about my kids and don't actually want them" disease.

The only cure for which is an ass whipping. Well, she's getting jail time where that sort of thing is par for the course, so there's that.

[–] superduperenigma 63 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Withholding meals as punishment was one example I saw in a different article.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago

In comparison, the Geneva Convention literally forbids doing this to enemy POWs.

[–] Custoslibera 42 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Ahhh child abuse. What a great parenting technique.

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[–] aceshigh 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

one time as punishment she cancelled christmas for the younger 2.. the older 2 got presents like usual. another time she didn't allow her oldest son to sleep in his room for 6 months oh and he slept on a bean bag during those months... when he did have a room he wasn't allowed to have a door. if you want to see examples check out mormon stories podcast. they go into detail.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

That probably means they're also terrible.

[–] Thursday 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is very common homeschooling education.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Homeschooling doesn't automatically mean child abuse. I was homeschooled and knew a lot of homeschooled kids, and none of us were ever abused.

A child abuser will abuse children and good people don't. It's as simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not every homeschooled child is abused, but when I worked for CPS, a HELL of a lot of abusive families used it as a means to keep their kids away from those pesky mandatory reporters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's fair. I definitely think it needs better oversight, if it's to exist at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Absolutely, not only for child welfare, but for basic education standards. I've seen homeschool be everything from structured classes for 8 hours, to sit here and read the Bible for 8 hours.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On my feed the thumbnail for this is a multiple picture's of a mouse eating a cherry tomato....

[–] Rukmer 10 points 10 months ago

I found this so funny, I mean what a tragic news story but such a cute sounding collage of photos, such contrast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's scary to think that some dumbasses took parenting advice from this psychopath. There really should be some sort of test one has to take before becoming a parent.