Disgraced YouTube mom vlogger Ruby Frank has made new headlines for asking ‘were we in the news’ the day after she was arrested for brutally abusing her two young children? This was revealed in the audio of the phone call inside the prison, which was released.
Franke, 42, also seems to blame children for her own torture, saying, “Adults need to understand that children can be full of evil and what it takes to fight it.” It’s really difficult to understand.” According to newly released phone records obtained by ABC 4.
Franke runs the popular YouTube channel “8 Passengers,” which focuses on her harsh approach to parenting, and details sadistic abuse of her two youngest children, including shaving their heads and shaving their heads. , starving them, dousing them with dirty mop water, and making them stand up. According to her recently released diary, she was forced to wear adult diapers while she was outside barefoot for hours in the harsh desert heat.
The mother of six, who once whipped her children with a belt, was jailed for up to 60 years last month after admitting to abusing the very children who helped make her famous online. was sentenced to imprisonment.
During a phone call to the jail, an unidentified man told Franke that a new story about her abuse was making headlines.
“Is it on the news?” Franke asked.
“At least you seem to be in the news,” he replied, adding, “It’s getting dark.”
“This is a witch hunt,” Franke added. “The devil has been chasing me for years.”
In other calls between August 2023 and December 2023, Franke defended his abuse and the choices of his former business partner Jody Hildebrandt, comparing him to Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith. did.
“The most frustrating thing is that I’m completely misunderstood,” Franke told her husband, whom she separated from in 2022, in a Sept. 1, 2023, phone call.
“It’s the most terrifying feeling. Similarly, my own family has misunderstood me and they have misunderstood me,” she added.
After separating from her husband, Franke began spending a lot of time with Hildebrandt, a controversial mental health coach in Ivins, Utah. So they launched a video channel featuring Ruby’s two youngest children, a 12-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl.
Franke and Hildebrandt were arrested on August 30th after their son escaped from the frightened house and rang a neighbor’s doorbell asking for help. He was covered in bruises and had duct tape wrapped around his wrists and ankles.
In the call, Mr. Franke said Mr. Hildebrandt was also misunderstood and misunderstood.
“Joseph Smith, every great man of God had to be misunderstood,” she said, her voice rising with emotion.
“God told me it was over,” Franke said. “Satan has taken everything I love from me. And I’m a good woman. I don’t do anything naughty.”
But by December, Franke’s view of Hildebrandt had changed significantly, according to a recording of a Dec. 2, 2023, phone call.
“Without God’s grace, mercy and help, I could not have gotten out of this situation,” Franke said. “This was the strangest, most miraculous intervention. We got everyone where we needed to be.”
Franke said parting ways with Hildebrandt “refreshed a lot of things.”
During a 20-minute phone call on Dec. 28, 2023, an unidentified woman asked Franke if she had seen Hildebrandt plead guilty, to which Franke replied, “Yes, I was very relieved.” Ta.
Franke acknowledged that had Hildebrandt not pleaded guilty, he could have been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
The woman then asked Franke if she and Hildebrandt would receive the same amount of prison time, to which Franke replied that her ex-partner should receive a longer sentence because he was “mentally ill.” It seems like he thinks he should take it.
“I even hire a professional to do a mental health evaluation just to say, ‘She’s fine, she doesn’t have any mental health issues,'” Franke said, adding that Hildebrandt was not able to help her. said he believed he would lie about his mental health.
“I don’t think she’s going to reveal her history to them,” Franke added. “Her interview will reveal that she is mentally ill.”
Franke also said she believes Hildebrandt only pleaded guilty “because he didn’t want to get on with his life.”
During the phone call, Franke also revealed that the last time she spoke to Hildebrandt was on the morning of her arrest.
Franke, who was being examined when police were called, said her home “looked like something out of a movie” when she returned.
“I pulled up and found a place to park…I walked over and the driveway was just full of cops,” she recalled.
Franke said she and Hildebrandt didn’t say much to each other when the children were “in the back” being taken away by ambulance, but they did hum hymns.
“I’m glad I didn’t say anything,” Franke told the woman on the other end of the phone. “If you get arrested, don’t say anything.”
Franke said she knew from the beginning that she was lying because her lawyer told her that Hildebrandt denied everything.
Franke admitted to child abuse in a plea agreement, but also claimed to have been influenced by Hildebrandt.
“If a 6-year-old knows he’s supposed to pee in the bathroom and he’s peeing through the heater vent, he’s going to try to hide it,” Franke said.
“And then I realized that she knew. She knew all along. And she’s hiding it.”
