Ruby Franke has been sentenced to up to 60 years in prison. The Utah-based mommy vlogger behind the defunct YouTube channel 8Passengers pleaded guilty to child abuse after torturing and starving two of her young children.
Utah mommy vlogger Ruby Franke was once best known for her now-defunct YouTube channel, 8Passengers, on which she documented family life with her husband and their six children. Then, in December, sheto four counts of aggravated child abuse.
Franke launched 8Passengers in 2015 and used her channel to chronicle life with her husband, Kevin Franke, a former engineering professor at Brigham Young University, along with the couple’s six children: Shari, Chad, Abby, Julie, Russell, and Eve. Franke used her platform to discuss parenting and share snippets of everyday activities, including driving with her kids and footage of family dinners.
The Springville Police Department told NBC that officers did show up at Franke’s home to investigate, but their attempts — and attempts by the Department of Child and Family Services — to contact the kids proved unsuccessful because the kids wouldn’t come to the door. After Ruby Franke’s shelter hearing, Jessi Hildebrandt, Jodi Hildebrandt’s niece, came forward to Salt Lake City–based news stationand shared their own experiences living with their aunt over a decade ago. Jessi, who uses they/them pronouns, alleged that the self-styled life coach subjected them to
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