New revelations about Ruby Franke’s story continue to emerge. The 41-year-old mother was arrested in the US last month for abusing her six children in front of 2.5 million followers who followed her on the web platform. In fact, Franke ran Channel 8 Passengers (now closed) with her engineer husband and her partner, 54-year-old therapist Jodi Hildebrandt, who was also arrested for child molestation. The 41-year-old did not hesitate to post her controversial “parenting” methods on the channel, which included taping her wrists and ankles with tape, treating wounds with chili and honey, and refusing sleep and food.
The end of the long history of abuse
And again: push-ups, skipping school to clean the floor when the children misbehaved, denying them Christmas presents or even taking away the eldest child’s bed for seven months or sending the teenager to a behavior camp for two and a half months of re-education in the middle of it Desert to “develop more maturity.” The long history of abuse and harassment came to an end thanks to the complaint of her 12-year-old son. The boy who managed to free himself actually escaped through a window and asked a neighbor for water and food: the neighbor, suspicious because the tape was still attached to the child’s ankles and wrists, called the police .
The relationship with followers
The YouTube channel was created in 2015. He had around 2.5 million followers and chronicled the daily life of a middle-class Mormon family from Utah. This is how followers saw these children growing up: learning to use the potty, the first shave, even the first menstruation of Shari, the eldest daughter, who announced in an Instagram post that she was finally free. Finally, his message on social media on August 30 when the police arrested his mother. However, the nightmare could have ended much sooner if local authorities had not closed the case due to “insufficient evidence”, according to reports from numerous users and a petition to alert social services.
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