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Disturbing Details about Ruby Franke · Murder Files Unsealed

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  In the era of social media influences, the Internet has been flooded with accounts
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  showcasing an idealized lifestyle, supposedly guiding us on how to live well. However,
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  a recent news story has shockingly exposed the fact that not all seemingly perfect
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  families who document their lives online are as well balanced as they portray. The
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  case of Ruby Frankea, a former influencer focused on family content who once had
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  approximately two point five million followers, has sparked demands for platforms like YouTube to
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  prohibit influences from exploiting their children for content. These demands arose after it was
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  revealed that Franka's children were subjected to forms of discipline that amounted to child abuse,
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  which occasionally unfolded on camera. As a consequence of her actions, Franka,
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  along with her business partner Jody Hildebrandt, now faces a lengthy prison sentence
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  for their crime. Here are the details surrounding the stomach turning events that led
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  to their multiple felony convictions. She took her son's bed away in twenty fifteen.
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  Ruby Frankea gained significant attention on social media with the launch of her channel
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  eight Passengers where she documented her and her husband Kevin's parenting journey as they raised
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  their six children in Springfield, Utah. The channel quickly amassed a devoted following
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  due to Frank's consistent updates and her willingness to showcase all aspects of family life,
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  both positive and negative. Franko once expressed to her followers that she had
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  never forgotten to vlog, comparing it to forgetting to eat. However, in
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  twenty twenty, followers of Ruby Frank's eight Passengers began to question her parenting methods.
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  This skepticism arose when Frankee revealed the she had taken away her son's bedroom
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  as a punishment for a prank he had played on a sibling, resulting in
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  him having to sleep on a bean bag for several months. Despite Frankee's defense
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  of her decision on her channel, many of her followers argued that such disciplinary
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  actions amounted to child abuse. She let her six year old child go hungry.
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  Additional information regarding Ruby Frank's excessively harsh methods of punishment emerged when a recently
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  resurfaced video revealed her openly discussing the act of allowing her daughter to go hungry
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  at school as a means of discipline. In the video, the mother candidly
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  explains that she had received a phone call from her daughter, Eve's teacher,
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  informing her that Eve had forgotten to bring her lunch. The teacher kindly requested
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  Frankie to bring food to the school so that Eve wouldn't have to endure hunger.
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  However, to the surprise of many viewers, Franka adamantly stated that she
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  had no intention of delivering a meal to her daughter at school. Instead,
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  she decided that Eve should face the consequence of going without food as a punishment
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  for her forgetfulness, as it was deemed her responsibility within the Franca household.
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  It is important to note that Eve was merely six years old at the time.
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  This video played a pivotal role in triggering a significant backlash against Frankie and
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  her YouTube channel eight passengers in twenty twenty. As a result, the channel
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  experienced a decline in its number of followers, with numerous former fans even initiating
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  a change dot org petition urging child Protective Services to investigate Franka for potential child
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  abuse. Did Frank's business partner isolate her Ruby frank initially faced criticism for her
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  parenting style, with critics accusing her of abusive treatment towards her children. As
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  the pressure mounted, child protective services visited her home, but no evidence of
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  wrongdoing was found. Despite this, opposition to Franka persisted, leading her critics
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  to create a parody channel called six Prisoners to highlight their concerns about the safety
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  of the Franca children. In twenty twenty two, Franka made the decision to
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  delete her YouTube channel. However, she soon resurfaced as a contributor to Connections,
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  a podcast and social media channel managed by life coach and therapist Jody Hildebrandt.
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  Initially seen as Frank's business partner, it later became apparent that Hildebrandt may
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  have influenced frankea, especially as Franka's abusive actions towards her children were revealed during
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  the court proceedings. Frank's parents and brother claimed that Hildebrant had convey hinst Franka
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  to distance herself from her husband and family members, and even played a role
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  in the abuse the nine hundred eleven call that revealed all In August twenty twenty
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  three, a concerned neighbor of Jody Hildebrandt made a distress call to nine hundred
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  eleven, reporting that a young boy had appeared at his doorstep desperately seeking assistance.
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  The child, visibly emaciated, pleaded for food and water, revealing that
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  he had been held captive in Hildebrandt's residence. Disturbingly, the boy's limbs were
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  covered in painful wounds inflicted by the restraints that had bound him. Hildebrandt had
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  allegedly attempted to treat these injuries using a combination of honey and cayenne pepper.
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  This young boy turned out to be Ruby Frank's twelve year old son, who had managed