deconstructSep 5, 2023

Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 counts of felony child abuse

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Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 counts of felony child abuse - lemm.ee

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.

Show threadNatakuNoxSep 5, 2023
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
Show threadxkforce
Do you have an example? I dont really want to go rooting around in that rabbit hole trying to find out.
Sep 6, 2023 at 2:30amWeb
Show threadSuperDuperSep 6, 2023
Withholding meals as punishment was one example I saw in a different article.
Show threadboolySep 6, 2023
In comparison, the Geneva Convention literally forbids doing this to enemy POWs.
Show threadCustosliberaSep 6, 2023
Ahhh child abuse. What a great parenting technique.
Show threadlightnsfwSep 6, 2023

Missing one lunch is hardly abuse. I forgot to grab my lunch on many occasions when I was a kid and nobody even called my parents about it. I was fine.

That doesn’t make her not a bad parent for all the other shit she did but if it was just this one thing it wouldn’t be that bad.

Show threadNatakuNoxSep 6, 2023
There are some things that should never be used in punishment. Food, safety/security, water, sleep, education, housing, and love. She broke several of those rules when she refused to bring her kid lunch.
Show threadInstigateSep 9, 2023
Child protection caseworker and previous child of abuse here: this is absolutely correct. Punishment should NEVER involve removal of a basic necessity. It should always amount to removal of a want, not a need. Taking away dessert, access to video games etc. are the only acceptable forms of punishment. This follows research that shows that taking a child’s basic necessities from them doesn’t improve behaviour, it merely adapts their attachment style to dysfunctional.
Show threadNatakuNoxSep 7, 2023
Wanted to add, most elementary schools have a policy that requires students to eat lunch. Kids don’t learn on am empty stomach.
Show threadQHCSep 7, 2023
Were you six years old?
Show threadlightnsfwSep 7, 2023
Roughly, and my parents worked an hour away from the school too so it’s not like they could have brought me a lunch in time anyway if they’d been notified.
Show threadhitmyspotSep 8, 2023

Forgetting it accidentally or not having any food does not make you a bad person. Purposely withholding food from someone in your care without the means to get their own certainly is abusive.

I agree, she shouldn’t have her kids taken away for making them skip one meal. It’s bad, but not horrific Tied up and injured on the other hand…

Show threadmaniajackSep 6, 2023
There are a bunch on this tiktok page: www.tiktok.com/@got2bviral/…/7273876424195312938
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Show threadmarron12Sep 6, 2023

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.

Show threadxkforceSep 6, 2023
So the fact she was abusing her kids should have been obvious to anyone that knew her. Got it.
Show threadSon_of_dadSep 6, 2023
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.
Show threadpinkdrunkenelephantsSep 8, 2023

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.

Show threadaceshighSep 6, 2023
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… if you want to see examples check out mormon stories podcast they show many examples.