Franke Ruby. Mother, coach for mental health, and wife. Convicted of severe child maltreatment. The ‘parenting’ vlog had 2.5 million subscribers. She was able to trick that many people into believing she was a decent mother. sent to prison for the horrible way she had treated her kids. mistress.
It means she faces a potential total prison sentence of four to 60 years, with the board of pardons and parole to determine the length of her sentence at a later date. As sentencing began, prosecutors asked the judge to honor the plea agreement which will see Franke serving time in prison for the charges.
One X user named Roxy commented under a post about Ruby Franke that “It comes as no surprise that she’s anti-LGBTQ+. Two of her children were taken to hospital suffering malnutrition. And before that, she had shut down her YouTube channel because of the punishments she gave out to her kids were raising questions.”
The 42-year-old entered a guilty plea to four charges of severe child abuse alongside her business partner, mental health counselor Jodi Hildebrandt. Franke acknowledged in her plea agreement to having kicked her kid while wearing boots, submerged his head, and covered his mouth and nose with her hands.
Together with Hildebrandt, she acknowledged that they also made the boy work long physical hours in the summer heat without much food or drink, which resulted in sunburns and dehydration. Emergency call records show that in August, Franke’s 12-year-old son requested a neighbor to contact the police after he broke out of Hildebrandt’s house in the southern Utah city of Ivins through a window.
He had duct tape wrapped around his wrists and ankles, was skinny, and had numerous wounds. The youngster told police that Hildebrandt had dressed his cuts with honey and chili pepper, per the search warrant.
Following their arrests at Hildebrandt’s residence, the two women faced six felony counts of severe child abuse.
At a December hearing, Franke entered a plea deal that was approved by the court, pleading guilty to four of the six charges and not guilty to the other two.
“I’ll never stop crying for hurting your tender souls,” Franke declared to her children, who had not been up to see their mother imprisoned, during her sentence hearing.
“My readiness to give all up for you was deftly turned into something uglier. All that was good, safe, and soft, I took from you.”
As part of her plea agreement, Hildebrandt also admitted guilt to four counts, with two of them being dropped. She might have spent up to 30 years in prison.
The two ladies face consecutive prison terms ranging from one to fifteen years for each charge. However, Utah law states that the maximum cumulative penalty for successive periods is thirty years, as reported by NBC News.
Hildebrandt acknowledged forcing Franke’s nine-year-old youngest daughter to run barefoot on gravel roads until her feet blistered and to repeatedly leap into cacti.
Following the arrests, the girl and boy were brought to the hospital and, along with two of their siblings, placed into state custody.
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