And that fake ass video they made with him running to them down the path when they came to pick him up. It's so fucking absurd that they took multiple angles and it seems as though they took multiple takes. Uhg... the way that has to take a toll on a kid.. I cannot imagine. Everything was staged, and when they went off script you could see her face drop, or her tone change.
I agree that sending him to a wilderness camp was wrong considering she's known for having extreme punishments for small things, but not all camps are abusive. Yes, the camp he went to could've been abusive, but that's not always how it is. I've heard many people who've said that they had the best time at a wilderness camp and that they think it's crazy that so many people claim to be abused at wilderness camps. I'm just saying that you should keep in mind that not all wilderness camps are bad, some are actually helpful.
About the point where she made her child sleep without a bed for 7 months and made him sleep on a bean bag was ALL BECAUSE he played a small prank on his little brother by the way (totally normal sibling things). I am just so glad she's been arrested, and hopefully justice will be served for those poor children.
@@pl4gued0ct0rit sucks so much that she wasn’t arrested sooner. She was known to be abusive and no one questioned it more. What’s more insane is how UA-cam themselves didn’t even ban her; it was the community that did.
@@pl4gued0ct0rUtah has the most lax laws for child abuse in the entire USA, purposefully breaking a childs bone, purposefully causing head injury, and extreme malnourishment (dangerously starved). Those are the arrestable standards.
I will add also that only her family vlogs channel with the kids where popular and always very controversial. Any videos of Ruby and her ex-husband Kevin or her business partner Jodi had more than 10k views. Also, Ruby’s business partner Jodi is the woman that the children crawled out the window of…. Believe or not, I think she is *actually crazier* than Ruby.
She posted a video about her 5 YT old who didn’t have lunch with her at school, she refused to take it too her during the day as a “punishment” for not getting up early enough to make it for herself…. A FIVE year old!!! Why didn’t the school make a complaint about this dreadful woman. I also heard that the neighbours house that poor kid ran too wasn’t close… so that poor kid had to run for it’s life while malnourished! 💔
Children on UA-cam deserve the same rights as child actors. UA-cam must stop parents from profiting off of their children. Aside from this kind of abuse, no one wants every single awkward part of their childhood recorded and on the internet for life. It’s not fair and causing so many issues, some we might not even be aware of today
I have to scream it somewhere, because I'm going crazy with indignation: you know where she says that her kids have no right to privacy, because that's HER space? HER home? Well, guess what? "HER" home, "HER" space, that was paid by HER KID'S UNDERAGED LABOUR, that is, by all the videos on the 8 passengers' channel where THE KIDS where the main stars, almost 24h/24h - having their lives and troubles and vulnerabilities paraded on the internet for everyone to see, willing or not. The gall of this despicable woman! (& dad, who was complicit and supportive, they disgust me)
It took so long for the law to address child labor issues in film so I’m not holding my breath for it to happen online, especially with how much more free form the internet is.
Honestly, in most of Europe they are. But America literally voted against a bill for children's rights here in 2015. Because the bill said spanking was a physical punishment so it wouldn't be allowed. We threw away rights for helpless children because we wanted to hit them to correct them. I don't understand anymore. I just can't wait to get to Sweden.
I so hope the laws around child labour expand to include exploitation done through media. So many clips of these kids saying they don't want to be filmed they don't want the video posted etc 🙈
Just to let you know, only one child crawled out of the window to ask for help and they later found another malnourished kid inside the house when they searched it and both kids were seemingly Ruby's. She's been working and staying with this woman Jody who's just as terrible, if not worse and so they found these kids at Jodys house but they were both Ruby's kids. Ruby had definitely been with them in the house at least a day or two before so she knew what was happening to them. There were other kids in the house too but I dont know if they were Ruby's or not
@@-MaryPoppins-this has been going for at least a month if not more. It depends on how starved they kept the kids which is something I don’t even wanna think
@@-MaryPoppins- the kids never have looked emaciated or have shown visible injuries/restraints in the videos. The emaciated look and the wrist injuries would not be something they would be able to hide while daily vlogging. Ruby never really tried to hide her abuse either, she was that privileged. So I think things started to take a thing for the worst after the older kids left and AFTER JODI came into the picture. Not to excuse Ruby, she is a loonie and knew exactly what was happening but it’s no coincidence to me that the kids were in JODI’S HOUSE. Edit: It really is heartbreaking that these kids had to go through this but at least they have a nice support system in the rest of Ruby’s family who already took in Shari (the oldest daughter) after she wanted nothing to do with Ruby anymore.
I'm glad the children have been taken away from her, can't imagine how it must feel to live at the mercy of some woman that won't allow you to eat if she doesn't like your behaviour.
Geez, J Aubrey called this woman out THREE YEARS ago, I didn't realize it had been that long. She was disgusting back then, I am absolutely not surprised to hear she crossed the line into criminal abuse and neglect.
okay, I’m only 4 minutes into the video and I’m already appalled. This is some of the most horrific shit I’ve seen in a while. I’m just so glad she’s been arrested.
I remember when J Aubrey posted the video about her and how disgusted I was with it. It’s about time she got uncovered by the mainstream media. The fact that the abuse continued with 0 repercussions until now is insane. I really thought the kids got help back when I saw her being covered but seeing this now hurts. I hope the kids involved finally get the help they deserve. I also hope this sets a precedent for how people see UA-cam-and social medias like it-can hurt children just like how other industries like Hollywood has. People who do this shouldn’t have all this evidence and not be investigated. Hell they shouldn’t have a platform to begin with! I get this platform is massive and can’t be monitored like it should but there is so much wrong with how it’s ran. It’s even worse because creators can be abusive to anyone, even their own kids and not get repercussions.
Of course, silly. You see, children are little dolls that exist to please the parents and need to be doing EXACTLY what they're told to make their parents happy. Sarcasm/snark, aside, it's disgusting that this woman got away with this ish for this long.
Hearing about this case has given me so much more clarity in my life from recently escaping parental abuse of 15 years. My stepdad would put me through the same conditions, sleeping on the sofa for months, restricting food, restricting showering, being locked in my bedroom, house and so much more. Thank you for sharing your view and thoughts on this Alex because I believe there's so many children that don't realise that what there parents put them through is child abuse. I hope others realise what they're experiencing is wrong and that they can tell someone.
I also had some experience in my childhood but could not talk to anybody about it. My mum and my sister where just watching, beeing passive is also beeing abusive. I had no clue to whom to talk. I once said something at school but with no comsequences for my mum, as simple as that.
I thought this was known for years? She had a military-esque parental style and took away her child's bed for like 7 months and sent him away to a camp because he did something bad (apparently). She's been a known control freak for years atleast.
@@-w-2772 Yeah, but it's an issue that plays a part in the abuse. The kids were probably "bad" and therefore didn't deserve to eat for weeks or whatever she came up with to abuse her children. She uses very fucked up punishments because she's a control freak and they've gone against her.
I remember when J Aubrey posted the video about her and how disgusted I was with it. The fact that the abuse continued with 0 repercussions until now is insane.
What makes me extremely angry is many of us have been reporting her for a very long time over many things over the years and nothing was ever done. Shes been abusive and UA-cam never did anything to her or her people.
As someone who watched them when I was 10, every single day at first, up until around 14, it started to become glaringly obvious that there was something wrong with this family when they sent their teenage son, to wilderness camp which is a heinous place, away for no actual good reason and as someone who was far more misbehaved at the same exact age (we are both 18) it made me wonder how they’d react if they had actual ‘bad’ children but they’ve traumatised their children so much that their kids don’t dare misbehave. The fact that Chad had to sleep on the floor for 7 months over a harmless prank was very representative of what was going on in that household as well as a few other things such as: their christmas being taken away twice and her letting her 6 year old daughter starve because ‘she’s in charge of her own lunch and if she forgets it, she needs to learn the consequences of her actions.’ Eve was 6!!! This is the same woman who forgot to turn her stove off and could have burnt her house down.
The worst part of the story besides the duct tape is the fact that the child was emaciated and for a child to be emaciated. This is something that takes being starved over an extended period of time. 😢❤
Just to let you know the children found in the home were the youngest 2 of Ruby but it was Jodi's house. The 2 middle daughters were also found at Ruby's house.
It makes me so disgusted… this woman lives less than ten minutes away from me she could’ve come into my work and I would’ve said “have a nice day” and it makes me deeply upset knowing what she did behind closed doors
If I had my bed, personal space, food security being taken away AND have the potential to have it all filmed I would be flipping out constantly! Poor poor kids 😞
They hated Chad so much, and when he went with the dad during the separation; all that hate for him transferred to Eve and Brave little Russell. Those poor younglings.
This shit about "living in truth" is so, so horrifying when you look into it. This mother is so transparently part of an abusive cult and it's shocking nothing has been done about it until now
its genuinely crazy that police have only just been involved, people have been calling her out on the internet and accusing her of these things for so long, like well over a year
From what I've heard, Utah (which is where the family lives) is one of the worst states at handling parental abuse, so there's a good chance that authorities were ignoring this until now.
The kids who was in the house was ruby’s youngest children Russel 12 and Eve 9 it’s so sad, I use to watch them like years and years ago and she made a video saying that everything the kids own is hers and they don’t have nothing
Ruby Franke is actually Mormon, a very specific kind of Mormon. And the daughter, Shari, asked on her instagram for people to submit evidence to the Google doc possibly for future legal use
Shari was definitely doing what she could to survive in that home as much as it was easy to call her a Karen or say she’s a kiss up once she was old enough to leave she did and cut off contact completely, knowing what we do now makes it even harder to watch these videos featuring their vlogs
I can’t say I’m surprised and I’m sure many others can agree. I feel absolutely awful for the kids and what they went through, the whole situation is INSANE.
It hurts my heart, I have been keeping up to date w that horrible woman for around a year or more now and I’m glad she’s finally been arrested. Those poor kids.
This makes me wonder how many kids, teens, and possibly even adults have been subjected to the Hildebrand methods at her "Mental health and Addiction issues" treatment center? If there are others who went through this, I hope they find the strength to come forward.
There has been petitions to get the kids removed but unfortunately nothing happened.it’s annoying as most cases nothing happens until the last moment or the child passes away 😔
I’m in the US and have a very strong Irish ancestry. The stories of how we came to be here have been passed down. The idea of my children or ANY child being hungry?! I can’t wrap my head around this!😡
The smile on her face when shes making the kids talk about their "punishmemts" is disgusting. These poor children will have so much trauma to process throughout their lives... at the hands of the very people they should have been able to trust most 💔
Actually, the 2 children that were abused are Ruby’s children not her work associate. The 2 children are in fact her youngest kids - the ones who she took Christmas away. They were for some reason staying in the work associate’s house. To make matters worse- the 911 call said that they were left alone and Jody H. pulled up to the house while the police were there- Ruby wasn’t there when the child escaped.😢
It's crazy all this, this is exactly how my friend was raised. I'm watching all this and just getting Deja vu from spending extended periods of time over at there house. Four children and all malnourished.
Thank you Alex for doing a video on this that shows something different than everyone else that's covering it. It really does show how hard you work to put out videos that are quality
I’m sure there were afraid to even forget something bc the punishment for them acting the age they were were just extremely cruel and unnecessary they even have friends bc of them which is honestly sad.
really liking your content atm. loved the tiktok vids but can really see the effort level atm and it’s just insane for how regular the uploads still are. big up alex x
Whats insane is she vlogged about her 5 to 6 year old daughter forgetting her lunch and ruby said as punishment im not taking it to her as its her responsibility to rememeber to take her lunch to school and that she hopes no one else will give her food!!!! Ruby is mental! Those poor children
I remember seeing that video. It's the only one of their vlogs I think I'd ever seen. However, when I saw this story and saw that clip in this vlog I remembered how it just haunted me at the time. Those poor children. I'm so grateful that they've been removed from that horrible place. It's a shame that she actually managed to raise children for this long with such terrible treatment and nothing was done until it was suddenly a media nightmare for the police dept if they hadn't removed the children.
The fact that she filmed her daughters bodies like that. Look at the angles, chest angle, made the second girl turn around to film her backside and the third she lifted her shirt to show her stomach 🤐
The kid who got out the window was ruby frankes kid Russel and in the house was eve they are both rubys children. They were just at Jodie’s house. And 2 other children abby and Julie were back at rubys house. All 4 kids are now out of rubys hands. And the dad Kevin and eldest brother chad do not live with them anymore and the eldest sister sheri lives on her own
I’ve never once thought “I wonder what this sticky thing is?” and not only smelled or licked the floor. Never even crossed my mind to do this, I’m so glad her kids are safe from her now.
Alex you should bring Callum Markie aka MARKIE to your podcast to talk about this. The man has been covering the Franke’s, Jody Hildebrandt, 8 Passengers for 5 years now, I gotta a playlist on my channel of all his videos on them. Edit: My playlist has 30 videos lol
i remember watching the channel when i was around 9/10 years old and obviously being so ignorant about everything despite it being so obvious now, i’m so glad she’s finally been caught and the children are safe
I hope after they arrested her, they gave the kids all the money that should've been theirs in the first place from their mom exploiting them on the Internet for the entertainment of creeps and sadists
it’s so weird that when the kids referred to things as “theirs” (such as their bedrooms or phones etc) she’d correct them that it’s her belongings she’s letting them use, so she was free to take them away, making them say it on camera aswell
there’s a clip where russel (the kid that ran away) was clearly distressed and was shouting and crying and they all just stand around laughing at him til he runs off
Please talk about when she didn't bring food for her young child at school because the child forgot to pack it and no lunch was her punishment for being irresponsible.
Hello parents… You should never with hold food from your children for any reason.. Period… Especially not as a form of punishment 😢 horrible, she has been bullying her children for years under the name of “good parenting “. Children don’t make good “choices “ because their brains aren’t full developed yet … privacy is a part of healthy development
When you have children you commit to keeping them safe and healthy until they are adults and can do it themselves. Taking away vital components of life, food and shelter…. From your CHILDREN. To try and ‘teach’ them respect or whatever else… is fucking disgusting
Good video Alex but slight correction: the children that were found malnourished tied up etc, were Rubys youngest children. Eve and Russell
I was about to say the child that escaped to a neighbour identified themselves as the youngest son of ruby
The little girl she refused to bring a lunch 😭
i used to watch them. lovely family but dysfunctional, i was always on the fence with ruby or just hating her. she reminded me my own mother.
Yeah, it was Jodie’s house but ruby’s kids.
Her son literally said he missed the wilderness camp. How bad is living with her that he would rather be in that abusive wilderness camp instead
Yeah that’s practically unheard of
He was probably fed more at the camp
And that fake ass video they made with him running to them down the path when they came to pick him up. It's so fucking absurd that they took multiple angles and it seems as though they took multiple takes. Uhg... the way that has to take a toll on a kid.. I cannot imagine. Everything was staged, and when they went off script you could see her face drop, or her tone change.
He literally said he didn't have friends in his normal life. He probably only ever had normal interaction with other teens at the camp
I agree that sending him to a wilderness camp was wrong considering she's known for having extreme punishments for small things, but not all camps are abusive. Yes, the camp he went to could've been abusive, but that's not always how it is. I've heard many people who've said that they had the best time at a wilderness camp and that they think it's crazy that so many people claim to be abused at wilderness camps. I'm just saying that you should keep in mind that not all wilderness camps are bad, some are actually helpful.
My son was duct taped to a chair for hours at a summer camp 25 years ago. He is still dealing with it at 30. It's heartbreaking.
Horrific:( hope your son is seeking mental help
@@jadeshepherd8627 He has a very strong support system around him, both family and medical.
I'm sorry that happened to your son. I hope charges were pressed.
At 5. 😭
@@randomcomment6068I know :( poor baby
About the point where she made her child sleep without a bed for 7 months and made him sleep on a bean bag was ALL BECAUSE he played a small prank on his little brother by the way (totally normal sibling things). I am just so glad she's been arrested, and hopefully justice will be served for those poor children.
I knew she sounded familiar. I'm surprised she wasn't arrested sooner
@@pl4gued0ct0rit sucks so much that she wasn’t arrested sooner. She was known to be abusive and no one questioned it more. What’s more insane is how UA-cam themselves didn’t even ban her; it was the community that did.
@@pl4gued0ct0rUtah has the most lax laws for child abuse in the entire USA, purposefully breaking a childs bone, purposefully causing head injury, and extreme malnourishment (dangerously starved).
Those are the arrestable standards.
On top of that, don't forget when Ruby decided to take down the door to Chad's (same child your talking about) bedroom. What the hell?!?!
Bean bags are so noisy, that poor child.
I've literally never heard of this woman before, it's crazy what goes unnoticed by us when they're so popular
The worse part is so many people did notice and speak out and it still took her starving and duct taping her kids for anything to be done
Honestly so many people reported her markie made so many video other youtubers did too
I will add also that only her family vlogs channel with the kids where popular and always very controversial.
Any videos of Ruby and her ex-husband Kevin or her business partner Jodi had more than 10k views.
Also, Ruby’s business partner Jodi is the woman that the children crawled out the window of…. Believe or not, I think she is *actually crazier* than Ruby.
@@Jimmiwasherewasn't even her kids it was her neice and nephew
It definitely hasn’t gone unnoticed, people online have been trying to out her for years and nothing ever worked
I've been WAITING for Alex to react to this since I heard it
Samee
Me too!
When did you here it?
@@dsiplesthe news came out yesterday
She posted a video about her 5 YT old who didn’t have lunch with her at school, she refused to take it too her during the day as a “punishment” for not getting up early enough to make it for herself…. A FIVE year old!!! Why didn’t the school make a complaint about this dreadful woman. I also heard that the neighbours house that poor kid ran too wasn’t close… so that poor kid had to run for it’s life while malnourished! 💔
I remember this story and I was wondering if it was the same woman.
Children on UA-cam deserve the same rights as child actors. UA-cam must stop parents from profiting off of their children. Aside from this kind of abuse, no one wants every single awkward part of their childhood recorded and on the internet for life. It’s not fair and causing so many issues, some we might not even be aware of today
THIS.
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I have to scream it somewhere, because I'm going crazy with indignation: you know where she says that her kids have no right to privacy, because that's HER space? HER home? Well, guess what? "HER" home, "HER" space, that was paid by HER KID'S UNDERAGED LABOUR, that is, by all the videos on the 8 passengers' channel where THE KIDS where the main stars, almost 24h/24h - having their lives and troubles and vulnerabilities paraded on the internet for everyone to see, willing or not. The gall of this despicable woman! (& dad, who was complicit and supportive, they disgust me)
that part!!
It's literally terrifying to me.
At this point, I think family channels should be illegal.
Those poor babies.
It took so long for the law to address child labor issues in film so I’m not holding my breath for it to happen online, especially with how much more free form the internet is.
Honestly, in most of Europe they are. But America literally voted against a bill for children's rights here in 2015. Because the bill said spanking was a physical punishment so it wouldn't be allowed.
We threw away rights for helpless children because we wanted to hit them to correct them.
I don't understand anymore. I just can't wait to get to Sweden.
I so hope the laws around child labour expand to include exploitation done through media. So many clips of these kids saying they don't want to be filmed they don't want the video posted etc 🙈
Just to let you know, only one child crawled out of the window to ask for help and they later found another malnourished kid inside the house when they searched it and both kids were seemingly Ruby's. She's been working and staying with this woman Jody who's just as terrible, if not worse and so they found these kids at Jodys house but they were both Ruby's kids. Ruby had definitely been with them in the house at least a day or two before so she knew what was happening to them. There were other kids in the house too but I dont know if they were Ruby's or not
Yup. The 911 operator says that it was Russell who escaped out of the window. He's a hero. These poor kids.
You don’t become malnourished in two days. So this has been an ongoing issue for quite some time.
@@-MaryPoppins-this has been going for at least a month if not more. It depends on how starved they kept the kids which is something I don’t even wanna think
@@Lucaz99 they’ve been using food as a weapon the entire time they were on UA-cam, so I doubt this is new. It’s heartbreaking. Those poor babies 😔
@@-MaryPoppins- the kids never have looked emaciated or have shown visible injuries/restraints in the videos. The emaciated look and the wrist injuries would not be something they would be able to hide while daily vlogging. Ruby never really tried to hide her abuse either, she was that privileged.
So I think things started to take a thing for the worst after the older kids left and AFTER JODI came into the picture. Not to excuse Ruby, she is a loonie and knew exactly what was happening but it’s no coincidence to me that the kids were in JODI’S HOUSE.
Edit: It really is heartbreaking that these kids had to go through this but at least they have a nice support system in the rest of Ruby’s family who already took in Shari (the oldest daughter) after she wanted nothing to do with Ruby anymore.
Emotional parental abuze is so easily overlooked. Without help it can create all kinds of attachment issues, and a cycle of unstable relationships.
This wasn’t just emotional abuse. The child that escaped was emaciated and had open wounds.
@@Anna-1937They're talking about the abuse that was put online
is horribl to say my mom was abuse me emotional its disgusting of you to say
She’s the type of parent to complain that her kids don’t open up to her
I'm glad the children have been taken away from her, can't imagine how it must feel to live at the mercy of some woman that won't allow you to eat if she doesn't like your behaviour.
Geez, J Aubrey called this woman out THREE YEARS ago, I didn't realize it had been that long. She was disgusting back then, I am absolutely not surprised to hear she crossed the line into criminal abuse and neglect.
okay, I’m only 4 minutes into the video and I’m already appalled. This is some of the most horrific shit I’ve seen in a while. I’m just so glad she’s been arrested.
I remember when J Aubrey posted the video about her and how disgusted I was with it. It’s about time she got uncovered by the mainstream media. The fact that the abuse continued with 0 repercussions until now is insane.
I really thought the kids got help back when I saw her being covered but seeing this now hurts. I hope the kids involved finally get the help they deserve. I also hope this sets a precedent for how people see UA-cam-and social medias like it-can hurt children just like how other industries like Hollywood has.
People who do this shouldn’t have all this evidence and not be investigated. Hell they shouldn’t have a platform to begin with!
I get this platform is massive and can’t be monitored like it should but there is so much wrong with how it’s ran. It’s even worse because creators can be abusive to anyone, even their own kids and not get repercussions.
im glad too. they live in my neighborhood and the kids *used* to go to my school before their mom pulled them out
She expected a 3 and 5 year old to just sit and NOT move unsupervised for an hour….
Of course, silly. You see, children are little dolls that exist to please the parents and need to be doing EXACTLY what they're told to make their parents happy.
Sarcasm/snark, aside, it's disgusting that this woman got away with this ish for this long.
Hearing about this case has given me so much more clarity in my life from recently escaping parental abuse of 15 years. My stepdad would put me through the same conditions, sleeping on the sofa for months, restricting food, restricting showering, being locked in my bedroom, house and so much more. Thank you for sharing your view and thoughts on this Alex because I believe there's so many children that don't realise that what there parents put them through is child abuse. I hope others realise what they're experiencing is wrong and that they can tell someone.
I also had some experience in my childhood but could not talk to anybody about it. My mum and my sister where just watching, beeing passive is also beeing abusive. I had no clue to whom to talk. I once said something at school but with no comsequences for my mum, as simple as that.
I've been going through the same way like "oh shit, xyz is abuse. oh SHIT"
i love when Ruby says it's her space, not the kids', yet those kids are the people who paid for their house and everything in it.
I thought this was known for years?
She had a military-esque parental style and took away her child's bed for like 7 months and sent him away to a camp because he did something bad (apparently).
She's been a known control freak for years atleast.
i think being a control freak was the least of the kids worries.
@@-w-2772
Yeah, but it's an issue that plays a part in the abuse.
The kids were probably "bad" and therefore didn't deserve to eat for weeks or whatever she came up with to abuse her children.
She uses very fucked up punishments because she's a control freak and they've gone against her.
Not to mention that the 'camp' was known for child abuse and using traumatising tactics to ''discipline'' the kids.
@@nabaaeyddan7565 That too
I remember when J Aubrey posted the video about her and how disgusted I was with it. The fact that the abuse continued with 0 repercussions until now is insane.
Her zooming into her daughters then posts it on the internet is SOOO creepy . Imagine if a dad did that
Correct then it would be a red flag!
What makes me extremely angry is many of us have been reporting her for a very long time over many things over the years and nothing was ever done. Shes been abusive and UA-cam never did anything to her or her people.
she's just been arrested NOW?! wish action was taken earlier
As someone who watched them when I was 10, every single day at first, up until around 14, it started to become glaringly obvious that there was something wrong with this family when they sent their teenage son, to wilderness camp which is a heinous place, away for no actual good reason and as someone who was far more misbehaved at the same exact age (we are both 18) it made me wonder how they’d react if they had actual ‘bad’ children but they’ve traumatised their children so much that their kids don’t dare misbehave. The fact that Chad had to sleep on the floor for 7 months over a harmless prank was very representative of what was going on in that household as well as a few other things such as: their christmas being taken away twice and her letting her 6 year old daughter starve because ‘she’s in charge of her own lunch and if she forgets it, she needs to learn the consequences of her actions.’ Eve was 6!!! This is the same woman who forgot to turn her stove off and could have burnt her house down.
The worst part of the story besides the duct tape is the fact that the child was emaciated and for a child to be emaciated. This is something that takes being starved over an extended period of time.
😢❤
Just to let you know the children found in the home were the youngest 2 of Ruby but it was Jodi's house. The 2 middle daughters were also found at Ruby's house.
It makes me so disgusted… this woman lives less than ten minutes away from me she could’ve come into my work and I would’ve said “have a nice day” and it makes me deeply upset knowing what she did behind closed doors
11:55 They didn't have to worry about bullying. They were "homeschooled" because the mom felt other kids would influence the kids.
If I had my bed, personal space, food security being taken away AND have the potential to have it all filmed I would be flipping out constantly! Poor poor kids 😞
They hated Chad so much, and when he went with the dad during the separation; all that hate for him transferred to Eve and Brave little Russell. Those poor younglings.
She is the literal embodiment of a Disney movie villain..
So glad these kids are getting peace after so meany years of neglect
This shit about "living in truth" is so, so horrifying when you look into it. This mother is so transparently part of an abusive cult and it's shocking nothing has been done about it until now
what an awful person she is and her husband. hope they go to jail and never see the kids again.
They shipped their eldest son off to re-education camp for playing a minor prank on his younger brother.
@@tanithschneider3051 awful.
its genuinely crazy that police have only just been involved, people have been calling her out on the internet and accusing her of these things for so long, like well over a year
From what I've heard, Utah (which is where the family lives) is one of the worst states at handling parental abuse, so there's a good chance that authorities were ignoring this until now.
The kids who was in the house was ruby’s youngest children Russel 12 and Eve 9 it’s so sad, I use to watch them like years and years ago and she made a video saying that everything the kids own is hers and they don’t have nothing
Finally a youtuber thats being held accountable for their actions🙏
"The privilege of eating dinner"
Nope, food is a human right, NOT a privilege
Ruby Franke is actually Mormon, a very specific kind of Mormon. And the daughter, Shari, asked on her instagram for people to submit evidence to the Google doc possibly for future legal use
Shari was definitely doing what she could to survive in that home as much as it was easy to call her a Karen or say she’s a kiss up once she was old enough to leave she did and cut off contact completely, knowing what we do now makes it even harder to watch these videos featuring their vlogs
I can’t say I’m surprised and I’m sure many others can agree. I feel absolutely awful for the kids and what they went through, the whole situation is INSANE.
Ah yes. The weaponization of food. What problems could that possibly give a child in the future. 😑
Markie has been following this forever and each update was traumatizing tbh
Well this is utterly horrific.
Thank you alex you're the first reaction channel I found that I actually know well glad I can watch you cover the whole situation
It was Ruby’s kids that escaped; they were at the other lady’s house. Russell, I think, was the one who climbed out the window.
It hurts my heart, I have been keeping up to date w that horrible woman for around a year or more now and I’m glad she’s finally been arrested. Those poor kids.
This makes me wonder how many kids, teens, and possibly even adults have been subjected to the Hildebrand methods at her "Mental health and Addiction issues" treatment center? If there are others who went through this, I hope they find the strength to come forward.
This is horrific, those poor kids. I hope they can live safely now ❤
8 passengers, more like 6 hostages.
Ruby and her family as well as Jody are Mormon fundamentalists. Keven used to work at BYU but stepped down i believe due to his and Rubys seperation.
There has been petitions to get the kids removed but unfortunately nothing happened.it’s annoying as most cases nothing happens until the last moment or the child passes away 😔
i’ve followed this case for a while now, it’s insane that it’s only being dealt with legally now
I’m in the US and have a very strong Irish ancestry. The stories of how we came to be here have been passed down. The idea of my children or ANY child being hungry?! I can’t wrap my head around this!😡
The smile on her face when shes making the kids talk about their "punishmemts" is disgusting. These poor children will have so much trauma to process throughout their lives... at the hands of the very people they should have been able to trust most 💔
The editing always gets me hooked its not too abrupt its not bad its just normal
Actually, the 2 children that were abused are Ruby’s children not her work associate. The 2 children are in fact her youngest kids - the ones who she took Christmas away. They were for some reason staying in the work associate’s house. To make matters worse- the 911 call said that they were left alone and Jody H. pulled up to the house while the police were there- Ruby wasn’t there when the child escaped.😢
In the care system- we’re in from anyway. It’s a requirement that the child have their own room.
I love how when something happens I don't have to look it up myself and I can just wait for Alex to explain it all
This is so sad. These are children, too young to be dealing with this insane parenting. Thank you Alex for your concern and comments.
It's crazy all this, this is exactly how my friend was raised. I'm watching all this and just getting Deja vu from spending extended periods of time over at there house. Four children and all malnourished.
Thank you Alex for doing a video on this that shows something different than everyone else that's covering it.
It really does show how hard you work to put out videos that are quality
I’m sure there were afraid to even forget something bc the punishment for them acting the age they were were just extremely cruel and unnecessary they even have friends bc of them which is honestly sad.
The random crawler had me bust out laughing around 14 minutes. It startled me. 😂
It’s always refreshing to see family that doesn’t try to defend someone that sucks in their family.
The children who were found were Ruby Frank’s children. They were being babysat by her friend who worked with her at connexions.
really liking your content atm. loved the tiktok vids but can really see the effort level atm and it’s just insane for how regular the uploads still are. big up alex x
i remember she sent him away to some camp thing because he spent to much time on his phone or something , crazy stuff
Whats insane is she vlogged about her 5 to 6 year old daughter forgetting her lunch and ruby said as punishment im not taking it to her as its her responsibility to rememeber to take her lunch to school and that she hopes no one else will give her food!!!! Ruby is mental! Those poor children
I remember seeing that video. It's the only one of their vlogs I think I'd ever seen. However, when I saw this story and saw that clip in this vlog I remembered how it just haunted me at the time. Those poor children. I'm so grateful that they've been removed from that horrible place. It's a shame that she actually managed to raise children for this long with such terrible treatment and nothing was done until it was suddenly a media nightmare for the police dept if they hadn't removed the children.
The fact that she filmed her daughters bodies like that. Look at the angles, chest angle, made the second girl turn around to film her backside and the third she lifted her shirt to show her stomach 🤐
The kid who got out the window was ruby frankes kid Russel and in the house was eve they are both rubys children. They were just at Jodie’s house. And 2 other children abby and Julie were back at rubys house. All 4 kids are now out of rubys hands. And the dad Kevin and eldest brother chad do not live with them anymore and the eldest sister sheri lives on her own
LITERALLY AS SOON AS I HEARD THE NEWS I WENT “I need to see Alex react”
Wow I don’t even know what to say this is horrifying
I’ve never once thought “I wonder what this sticky thing is?” and not only smelled or licked the floor. Never even crossed my mind to do this, I’m so glad her kids are safe from her now.
Alex you should bring Callum Markie aka MARKIE to your podcast to talk about this.
The man has been covering the Franke’s, Jody Hildebrandt, 8 Passengers for 5 years now, I gotta a playlist on my channel of all his videos on them.
Edit: My playlist has 30 videos lol
I’m dying to know what “egregious” decisions her kindergartener made
Allegedly. She posted so much evidence against herself . Because she is so entitled that she treated her kids like property.
It was Ruby’s kids in that house. The 12 year old (younger boy in the wrestling video) and the youngest, the 9 year old.
i remember watching the channel when i was around 9/10 years old and obviously being so ignorant about everything despite it being so obvious now, i’m so glad she’s finally been caught and the children are safe
I hope after they arrested her, they gave the kids all the money that should've been theirs in the first place from their mom exploiting them on the Internet for the entertainment of creeps and sadists
alex videos are how i keep up to date with everything at this point
I remember watching them as a kid.., I can't believe I didn't see it all
she reminds me of my mom so much and now i’m realizing most of the things my mom did was ducked up :,)
she also said that her children were not allowed back once they reached 18
2:23 the glee and laughter at someone else's pain - malignant covert narcissist. I hope I am wrong.
it’s so weird that when the kids referred to things as “theirs” (such as their bedrooms or phones etc) she’d correct them that it’s her belongings she’s letting them use, so she was free to take them away, making them say it on camera aswell
there’s a clip where russel (the kid that ran away) was clearly distressed and was shouting and crying and they all just stand around laughing at him til he runs off
this is so off topic it’s offensive but alex has never looked better.
I agree 👍
She was hiding in plain sight! 😢
This is why I hate family UA-camrs, you never know whats going on behind closed doors
Bro....I live 15 minutes away from Ivins. I can't believe she was so close by.... 💀
Please talk about when she didn't bring food for her young child at school because the child forgot to pack it and no lunch was her punishment for being irresponsible.
I’m a mom and I have never once licked the floor my dude 😅 she’s bonkers and it hurts her kids, I’m personally celebrating the intervention 🥳
Hello parents… You should never with hold food from your children for any reason.. Period… Especially not as a form of punishment 😢 horrible, she has been bullying her children for years under the name of “good parenting “. Children don’t make good “choices “ because their brains aren’t full developed yet … privacy is a part of healthy development
this is bringing up alot of things my father did to me, and my mother watched and let happen, childhood trauma anyone?
People have been calling them out for YEARS, but until the authorities arrested her, she was allowed to carry on.
I saw a car crash the other week and my first thought defiently wasn't "oh let's record this!!!"
I remember seeing this 8 passengers shit a few years ago and I’m appalled it took this long to have something happen
When you have children you commit to keeping them safe and healthy until they are adults and can do it themselves. Taking away vital components of life, food and shelter…. From your CHILDREN. To try and ‘teach’ them respect or whatever else… is fucking disgusting