I started to choke up when the neighbor was clearly holding back tears talking to the 911 operator. That man has a good heart and he helped save those kids.
That got to me too. Like listen I'm not sensitive by any means, and in my current situation this could never happen to me, but imagining the anger, sadness, and pure intention of getting some kid help who has clearly been hurt by the people who are supposed to be the most loving kinda felt like a gut punch. I'm glad I haven't been in this situation because I might very well fly off the handle. "Oh, your parents are evil? Let's cull the evil from this land" type shit. No I'm not a violent person but everyone has something that will change them, and seeing some victim begging for help when their family neglected their needs (not out of being poor but out of malice) would make me want to become the justice we all think we deserve. All failures would be sewn in flesh. Maybe scarification of their sins on their forehead so they are seen as demons by anyone with a heart. God maybe I watch too much TV. A quote from attack on Titan is fitting here. "To defeat the monsters, we must let go of our humanity and fight on their terms". I don't advocate for street justice but I certainly won't be upset if all abusers were literally forced out of society. I would feel no pity until they could prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that they have permanently changed for the better, which is nigh impossible for anyone who harms kids. At least if you commit crimes against adults, there is the possibility that they can defend themselves
I started crying around the same time as well. Keep in mind, I've been abused by my parents growing up so I know how it feels and hearing the conditions of that boy made me imagine something that happened similarly to me as well. I really wish there was something I could do to help these kids as a survivor of abuse myself..
@@dimitrilitovsk2372something to take solice in is that most abusers are like, deeply miserable people by nature. Being toxic is a two way street, they poison other people but that poison comes from within them, which is an unhappy way to live for themselves as well as their victims. I do not envy having to live in the mind of someone who thinks starvation or tying children up with duct tape is appropriate punishment; or who tries to monetize every moment of their life by sharing private family moments on the internet; or who feels so petty and vindictive that they taunt their unfed children. They either find pleasure in the suffering of their own children, which is unfortunate for them too because it means they don't understand what a healthy family relationship is like, or they think that their methods are justified, which means they must feel constantly unsatisfied with their children and that feeling would also probably suck. The self fulfilling prophecy is that the world of an abuser is a miserable place where if they can't be happy, no one can. Lose/lose situation all around.
It’s so gut wrenching to hear the caller trying his hardest not to cry. He really does give a damn and cares for the safety of these kids. I hope he’s doing well.
This is straight up child abuse. It reminds me of DaddyOFive who also abused his children. The saddest part about this is that now these children may grow up thinking that this is acceptable parenting. You can see this with how nonchalant Chad's attitude is towards his parents forcing him to sleep on the floor
Exactly what i was thinking. They may no longer be getting physically abused, but the emotional and psychological abuse they suffered is probably still affecting them. They most likely need therapy and deprogramming after all of that. I just hope they can get the help they deserve.
And yet the UA-cam channel accumulated millions of subscribers and probably hundreds of millions, if not billions, of views over the years. Pretty sickening all around.
I was sent to bed without supper before but this woman took things to the next level & I'm not defending my parents doing it either. There are better ways to discipline children than denying them basic human needs.
I think that she thought by publicly admitting it and explaining why makes it no longer child abuse. Yeah, that’s like if I rob someone and then explain why it was justified then it’s no longer stealing.
My dad was like that except it was in private. Everyone outside the house thought my dad was the most amazing and nicest guy they had ever met. They didn't know he would emotionally damage me and my siblings. I got worst of it and it almost destroyed my marriage cause I let what he did to me run my life. It was only until about 5 months ago that I stopped letting it do that. I'm 31 years old and I actually suffer from PTSD because of him. Luckily it never became physical but it came close a few times.
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 It's a pretty decent message that a lot of people should internalize. Good messages and narratives don't stop being important when you get bored of them
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13Wish I could see it as boring but I was one of those kids so it's been nice seeing so many people say it. Sorry that's boring you but like so what? 🤷🏻♀️
ScareTheater did a very good thing in doing that. I respect the guy a lot. He has matured a lot throughout the years. And I highly admire him a lot ngl. He's been a inspiration for me and others. I have to thank him a lot.
It’s amazing, he doesn’t just blur out their faces like many people would. It really does show a lot of respect for people who legitimately can’t consent to being shown online.
The way that people were painting him as a victim was just annoying. Like this man enabled, filmed, and encouraged every once of abuse just as much as Ruby did. Throw them all away!
His lawyer was deliberate with saying the father wasn't involved with any "physical" abuse. If the court rules "physical" abuse as requiring direct contact, and treated withholding food or forcing the children to sleep on the floor as "negligence," then the lawyer wouldn't be lying about it from a legal standpoint. The lawyer didn't even say the father was anything _close_ to innocent, rather that he was simply not complicit in "physical" abuse. (Again, in the eyes of the court.) It honestly feels like even the lawyer is disgusted with the father and has a massive burden on his shoulders defending him, but won't dismiss him as a client or break confidentiality because he doesn't want to be disbarred and be unable to help people that actually may _not_ be guilty of ANY crimes.
"The privilege of eating" I am speechless. "Lot of behavior and emotional challenges " yeah if you abuse your children they will have challenges. Parents making money from their children is despicable to begin with.
As a kid, my mother used to threaten to take away all my belongs if I said that I wanted to contact CPS or run away as a way to "teach me what not living at home was like." That was traumatizing enough, it makes me scared to lose things and I end up breaking down into tears if something goes missing. I can't imagine having to *actually* go through having something taken away like that.
what??? no, their parents were teaching them to learn how nice it is to have a roof over your head, this is a case of tough love. @@brunobucciaratiswife
My mother used to do the same thing and Im weird about people moving my things or losing stuff. Reading this comment has made me realise the two are probably related. I'm not a hoarder or anything I'm fairly minimal but I grew up not being allowed to have anything in the house outside of my room.
Depends on what you are comparing it with. Here in Sweden, kids get taken away from their families who love them and they end up wh%cking themselves, there was a famous case a few weeks ago of a young girl wh%cking herself because they took her away from her (biological) parents and gave her to a family who abused her, SEVERAL times.
I have an EXTREMELY bad taste from past interactions with Child Protective Services from when I was a teen. My parents were/are amazing but CPS did anything they could to mess up our lives. Felt GREAT when I turned 18 to show up to the CPS persons office and flipping their desk over. I understand the need for Child Family Services in the US but they tend to do more harm than good.
The fact that Ruby is now saying one of her kids is a sexual predator is insane. That coupled with her beliefs that kids aren’t allowed privacy and blaming sex abuse victims for their own abuse makes me think some more horrific accusations are going to come to light about her and she’s already trying to set up a defense. And I fully believe Ruby and Jodi are/were romantically involved.
Yeah like it doesn't even make sense, oh I saw my son committing a horrible crime, so instead of calling any services or help or police or anything, let me just tie him up and starve him for a long period of time in secrecy? Like... what?? Makes me wonder if she accused him before he could bring up any dirt about her in a attempt to look better?
Honestly, the fact that they talk about their children's body hair and intrude on them when they're in the bathroom on camera just screams illegal bait to me
@@damienreyna5879that doesn't make this okay, and the point is the word "bait". It's making it easier for OTHERS to prey on them. If you think taking pictures is what makes it borderline illegal, you need help.
@@damienreyna5879Who said anything about photos? They're trying to tempt the interest of creeps by talking about their children's bodies and intruding on their privacy.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 I don't disagree at all about trying to tempt interest from viewers on UA-cam. However, the way this woman spoke about "control" - specifically mentioning how only **she** has control in **her** home, that nobody else has *any* rights or privileges, to paraphrase - I don't think she was thinking about "creeps" in particular. Rather, it sounded like she was trying to create clickbait, and saw the children, and anything involving the children, as nothing more than a commodity for content creation. In other words: I don't think the body hair or intruding in the bathroom was meant to be appealing for "creeps"(trying not to get shadow'd), rather just anything that could appear as clickbait of _any_ kind for the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of subscribers. I'd honestly say that's probably worse; millions of people see these children in this state and not only continue to watch, but share it around like it's all complete fiction.
As horrible as the adults on these kid's lives are, we should criticize more harshly Child Protective Services for not being more active on this case, when all the videos were out in public. A child had to literally escape and ask for help before they acted. What a backwards way of "protecting" from a government entity
CPS constantly drops the ball. I understand that it is very hard, but I feel like denying basic human needs to your children like food should have a no tolerance and your children should be taken away!
Cps only takes kids from poorer families that can't fight much for there kids.they take kids from even good hones for no reason but ignore abuse al the time even with DaddyOFive they act as if the mother knew nothing and she participated and it took public outrage for cops to even start getting involved.
If I recall with hearing from someone who use to work with CPS there was a lot of red tape to the point even with cases they did suspect highly likely being abusive there was nothing they could do without really strong evidence. I actually had when growing up a few case workers investigate my parents, but there wasn't enough evidence of "actual abuse". Sadly I just had to endure the abuse my mentally ill "mother" gave to me
The father 100% had to know what was going on. Also, how is withholding food and forcing your kids to sleep on the floor not physical abuse? I fear to know what else was going on in that house that we don't yet know about.
Withholding food is abuse. Sleeping on the floor is not. A TempurPedic is not an inalienable right. There's kids all over the country Sleeping on a variety of surfaces. If it's not harmful- and sleeping on the floor absolutely is not- then it isn't abuse.
Forcing your child to sleep on the floor and taking away their right to sleep in their own bed in their own room is absolutely child abuse PERIOD. You are worthy of capital punishment.@@mommy2libras
The sad truth is CPS only cares about the bare minimum, they too have numbers and quotas to meet, meaning the less children they pull from houses the better it looks for them. They will interview children in front of their parents even if the allegations of abuse include the parents being the perpetrators. If parents withhold food but there is food in the home the manner in which cps might handle it is simply finger wagging at the parents to feed the kids and the case being unfounded as they move on. If the family appears middle class or of higher class, it is even less likely they will be scrutinized, white families even less so. Of course nOt aLl cps workers are incompetent but please understand the entire system dictates a policy that demands a high level of abuse to be proven before removing the children is even an option.
Why are they targeting the youngest children? I can't tell you just how heart broken I would be if I woke up and saw my other siblings got presents but I didn't. These people are cruel.
She clearly takes pleasure in watching the youngest get hissy and cry because the reactions are funny. Id get it if it wasnt my own kid....but like, thats *your* kid man.
i may be misunderstanding this but are you saying its okay for this to happen to step children? cause if so, just seek help man..@@ratatouilledrinksclorax9897
If this had been going on for all the children's entire lives, the older ones are probably extremely desensitized, while the younger ones still far more easily elicit a reaction. On top of that, when the parents are aware of what they've actually done to the heads of the older children in particular, they'd probably be wetting their pants at the thought of what harm an older teenager(read as: a raging ball of hormones) could potentially inflict if they're set off bad enough, after so many years of all this.
As a female who grew up with an eating disorder, I can tell you that my mother denying me a meal would have only encouraged my disease. And I know that girls are not the only ones who deal with EDs, it affects boys as well, but I don't think I know a woman who hasn't done something like skip a meal or use a diuretic or laxative to "lose a quick few" at some point in their lives. It's an epidemic and we don't talk about it enough. I'm not a mom, I can't have kids, but I know enough to say that using denial of food as a punishment is extremely dangerous. It's one thing if the kid is picky and won't eat what you cooked. Then you can say, "You eat this, or you don't get anything." (Although I feel like, even in those situations, parents will at least offer their child a healthy alternative, like some fruit, so that they don't go to bed hungry. Starving a child is a form of child abuse.) You need to be cognizant of what methods you're using to discipline your children. Even before the arrest, the "8 Passengers" channel was a really great example of what NOT to do!
Agreed. Discipline and malicious harm are two different things. Discipline isn't fun but it's necessary. Malicious harm is evil, in pure form. I'm not religious but if God or Satan exist, Satan is the people who harm kids for "discipline". Like yeah sometimes I didn't like to eat what my mom made, but after she made it two or three times and I didn't eat it, she would make me a cup ramen or Mac and cheese instead of the planned dinner. Granted no parents are perfect, but there's a fine line between a shitty home situation and shitty parents. In a shitty home you still get love. With shitty parents you get trauma, assuming you get out of it fine enough to function in society. It's so sad. I don't have any words other than I hope the kids can get the help that they deserve, and that the people who abused them get what they deserve too, unfortunately even if the abusers have broken glass in their feet for the rest of their lives, it won't undo the harm they caused 😢
I bet she's one of those "human rights are just privileges" people. You know, the best and definitely not problematic or dangerous at all people that everybody loves to be around. :)
The fact that the neighbor is crying out of compassion and worry for the kids state during the call, while the mother is using the court hearing most likely in a last ditch attempt to enact control, to separate the children with her delusions and lies is telling all you need to know. The fact that she had "things the audience didn't know" shows that it was intentional and aware too. I hope prison sucks for them both. Let's see how ready to coNeCt the inmates are. I heard most don't take kindly to child abusers.
13:26 "No Ruby, I really don't. You sound like a fucking psycho." Cathartic to hear. I don't need therapy for my upbringing I need the ScareTheater video that roasts tf out of it
As a survivor of child abuse this is absolutely heartbreaking. The parents method of punishments are completely deprived of empathy, and the impacts of those decisions could last a lifetime. My heart goes out to the siblings and I can only wish the best for their futures.
Lots of them. They're already narcissists for exploiting their children and exposing them to millions of strangers for attention and cash. They're all bad. None of their children can consent to being paraded online for weirdos to gawp at.
Ruby is a genuine psychopath, a narcissist who obsesses hierarchy over the well-being of her children. The only moments when she smiles is when she humiliates her children. Not only that, but the fact that in the wake of overwhelming evidence of her abuse before court, her only thought was to accuse her son of faulty SA allegations really reveals whom Ruby is: a Karen. I genuinely hope those kids will find a loving home and I hope that mother rots in jail, far from any children.
False SA accusations towards children isn’t “Karen” behavior. It’s sociopathy. Way past the threshold of pettiness of Karens. Closer to serial killers and rapists
So many people who would give anything to be loving and amazing parents don’t get that chance. But it really seems like the most fertile people are the fucking worst parents. I hope these babies can heal from what these monsters put them through…
Even more so then some goanimate users who would make hundreds of punishment day videos, all because they hated the most hated cartoon character which is caillou by the way along with so children show characters that are sometimes not a caillou-leveled brat and theres one video where at the end of the video Boris (from a show caillou that is parody in goanimate) would said "Child abuse is a good thing and makes life better" and also those characters are fictional said by the fans of those users Which is messed I if you ask me
And now Kevin is threatening to sue his eldest daughter for theft because she allegedly took things from the house when grabbing essentials for her siblings. You know, that house he hasn't been to in over a year so of course he wouldn't have known the abuse going on in it. But somehow that doesn't stop him from knowing when things are missing.
Thank you for mentioning how Kevin is basically getting off Scot free with all this. There’s been this weird push to sanitize his role in all this, when he very actively participated in the abuse of the children and actively defended Ruby’s negligence on multiple occasions. Maybe he didn’t know the full extent, but I refuse to believe he deserves custody of any of his children.
@@zacharyriley4561Well yes, but to play devils advocate, Ruby would very likely try to ruin Kevin with say…a false rape accusation, if she’d do that with her own kids, why would he be safe?
I know some people may disagree but one of the worst things I've seen from this family was taking Christmas away from their two youngest children. Children sincerely look forward to Christmas all year and attempt to be as self aware as a child can be. For those a**holes to take that away from them is beyond cruel and unfortunately its situations like that one that will give children resentments they won't understand hurting them in the long run more than anything. This entire channel, I hope, will be a parenting lesson in what NOT to do.
The police photos of his wounds were recently released and… jesus. His poor ankles and wrists look almost necrotic. Like the kind of wounds you find on diabetics or krokodil addicts. Whatever you’re imagining right now, the real thing is worse. Those children deserve nothing but peace, privacy, and healing.
So I can actually speak on the reason why Ruby said one of her kids is a sexual predator at the first hearing. a family member of mine works in both a court and child protective field. If a potential/known predator is a means of concern, especially a victim amongst a group of victims, the kids wouldn’t be able to stay together if that was the case. They wouldn’t allowed to be in a care facility or a foster home together at all, minimizing their contact. Aka, she’s further breaking down these children. They can’t comfort one another, they’re in an unfamiliar environment, and they can’t speak up and agree on a shared perspective together. She’s abusing them even now from afar.
Thank you for bringing attention to this. Horrible people, the purpose of having children is to bring joy in to their lives and share a loving respectful space If you don’t wish to do that, do not have them, they don’t owe you anything, especially not fame. Shit is pure evil, I hope she and her husband get arrested
No you dont see, constant belittling and bullying of children, also pouring spices into their open wounds makes strong men and women for society, sure, they may break down in public out of nowhere due to being incredibly emotionally unstable due to this but they'll atleast....probably will be matured adults, just expect to be abandoned when youre elderly.
The fact that her daughter is apparently going around "cutting things" (who knows what the real truth of this incident was anyway) is alarming in of itself, given how young she is in that clip. Red flags abound in literally every clip of this family, it's sickening that things were left alone this long.
You can tell the older boy is already showing signs of the sadism his parents have shown to him. His "prank" definitely had the same kind of sickening motivation of hurting the youngersibling. This shit is so blatantly vile. CPS showing, as usual, why government is useless and never actually helps with anything.
There's a potential here that so much worse was so normalized that he really didn't think it was that bad. I could be wrong, but I'd hate to see people assume the worse based on what he did when he was in that madhouse. Hopefully he's getting better now.
The government is ruthlessly effective. Just look at how it will prosecute a war, slash taxes for the wealthy and benefits for the rest, pursue errors in taxes etc. It's a grand ruse that the government pulls to convince you that it's helplessly ineffective by making your experience with the DMV (and similar) reflect that. But it conceals just how effective the government can be when they want.
You do realize that millions of older siblings pull these sorts of "pranks"- and much worse- on their younger siblings all over the world and with a variety of parents mright? Acting like this is some new or extraordinary behavior that is the result of these specific parents is ignorant- kids have been doing crap like this since the beginning of time and for no other reason than they think it's "fun" to torment their younger siblings. Is it cruel and they should be punished? Absolutely. But is it relatively normal behavior? Yes. It absolutely is. There's some kid somewhere right this second doing something to torment one of their younger siblings- hiding their favorite stuffed animal or telling them they were adopted or telling them that if they get out of bed after 10 pm the boogeyman will eat them or simply that their parents don't actually like them or something else equally as horrible.
Did they say how old the older and younger brother were at the time of the prank? Honest question, because I didn't catch any ages except the youngest daughter, and one being out of the house and in college. If the siblings were, say, four years apart, and the older one was, say, eight at the time, with the younger being four, that would sound like a pretty normal and relatively harmless prank. If they're ten years apart, though, with the older being, say, 14 at the time of the incident and the younger being four, this is a different ballgame.
Reminds me a lot of the oldest child in the Daddy O Five situation. Kids will copy what’s been normalized to them, monsters will inevitably create monsters.
I watched your interview on why you left YT. I'm just glad u came back. It's like seeing an old friend. Hope you don't quit for good, even a video a month is better than nothing. Just to see u're doing ok.
Can't believe I caught a Scaretheater upload on time. On a serious note, how can people even fathom the thought of doing something like this, let alone go through with it? Clout is one hell of a drug.
This is beyond clout. There's a clip of her from a podcast saying the camera being on helped her NOT be rageful to her kids. She was abusive before she was a "mommy vlogger"
Family channels should be considered child abuse. It's invasive, potential pedo bait, and psychologically damaging to these poor kids. I'm not usually for UA-cam banning anyone, but I think this genre is borderline illegal, and should be treated as such.
This is a trending topic right now. So not unknown. But I do like him fully doing coverage of the backstory so people who haven't been calling out the parents for years before this, get caught up. Ruby was a monster before Jodi. Jodi just helped drive it to new levels.
I couldnt imagine having a mother/father like that. I feel so soery for those kids. Im sad it took so long for something to be done. Seeing thag this happen to those kids breaks my heart as a mother and a person in general.
I can't imagine all the mental and physical pain that the kids have gone through. Not to mention their life being broadcasted to the world which fueled their frustration and hopelessness knowing that their true life is being covered up by their mother on the something as public as the internet. On a lighter note, you never a dull upload. Well researched and very indepth!
That part where she threatens to cut the plushie's head off? Damn, that caused a major surge of anxiety. My birther (my so-called mother) did the same thing to me when I was around six. I'm thirty next year, and I can still remember how I screamed and cried, absolutely terrified. The trauma stays with me, and sometimes when it resurfaces, I'm thrown back into our kitchen, staring at a pair of scissors around my favorite plushie's neck. It was one of the worst things I'd experienced up until that point. I still have that plushie, and it's pretty raggedy, but in one piece. I'm glad that I was born in the 90s. I would've been a victim of this kinda behavior if I'd been born a lot later. My birther was a narcissist, who loved to torment me, with or without an audience. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how someone can be this cruel to their own child. Why? How? I can't, and probably never will, understand.
This is generally a disturbint rabbit hole, I feel so bad for those children that were tormented with cruel punishments, And the fact that the mother physically abused her children in a cruel manner is pretty heartbreaking, I'm glad justice is being served, This mother is just sick.
Thank you for bringing more awareness to this topic. I feel like it’s not talked about as often as it should, and I’m glad a popular channel like you would bring awareness to this! 😊
Everytime I hear that neighbour on the 911 call, it's just gut wrenching. You can just hear how devastated he is by trying to grasp what the boy has been through. Ruby and Jodi are super creepy because they don't even realize their own psychopathy.
Almost all family channels out there weird me out. Can't imagine what these kids went through. I Hope we get an update video when the psycho's trial ends.
They're all disgusting. You already have to be a massive narcissist to want to parade your children online for strangers to gawp at for attention and money. They should all be banned. None of the kids in any of these creepy families can consent.
Withholding food is the absolute best way to give your kids ED or just make an already existing ED 10x worse absolutely rancid behaviour and that phone call at around 15:50 is just heartbreaking
I've had personal experience and experience with friends. Often times calling CPS just does more harm than good. Nearly every abuse victim I know who sought out CPS only ended up worse off after contacting them.
I know that first hand smdh They ordered family therapy for us and after 3 months of going over the same things every week, the case was closed. I begged the therapist to tell them nothing changed - I was a complete sobbing mess - and the therapist told me to "give them a chance" as if I hadn't been doing that every week. Nothing changed aside from my narcissistic mother being convinced that she's obviously not abusive because I wasn't taken away (she wasn't even my legal guardian, her parents were) and me questioning if I was trying hard enough- as the child. Spoiler alert - I was the only one trying. I even put myself into therapy a few years later (at age 12) because I wanted to "be better" but I was never the problem.
@@maddie9655 Agree. It can be a catch-22 for those in these jobs. It can also be overloaded caseloads, loopholes, etc. In my opinion, it's a position rife with tough situations to solve even if you do everything in your power while working around enforced limitations.
This is really fucked up, actually. I am at the part where he is talking about the shower scene and it is just so sad. Especially considering how she is willing to show this. What is she not? This is some of the most invasive stuff I have ever seen and it seriously pisses me off. I appreciate your blurring of the children's faces.
I have lived in Utah for my entire life. The faux righteous and wholesome behavior is common here. There are very few people who are authentic living here, I have seen mothers like Ruby Franky but luckily they weren't full on abusive.
Shocked at how long this was going on before something actually happened to get these kids out of that abusive household. Even with those videos it shows that these kids were mistreated by their parents. I hope all victims involved are doing well and healing from this traumatic experience.
This heavily reminded me of the Turpin family case. I can't believe that was only in 2018. My heart breaks for all the kids who never got out from "parents" like these.
I feel so bad for the daughter when the mum threatens to cut the teddys head off. That’s a disgusting way to threaten your kid and it’s not gonna do anything but make them scare you, some parents do not deserve the innocence and love of a child
I'm in shock that a mother could do this to her children, it's just horrific. When she threatened to cut the head off of the little girl's toy, I started tearing up, that woman is a monster.
A lot of what she did is not okay. I can't imagine letting a child, at any age, go hungry as "a consequence" for forgetting their lunch. Or taking away their room for MONTHS. Food and basic necessities should not be used as punishment.
@@vanessar.6085 Yeah, no, nothing she did was ok, it was just super upsetting to see that little girl cry like that on account of her own mother. I wouldn't want to see any more of their reactions to any of the horrific torture she put those kids through. It was also heartbreaking to hear the neighbor's voice, who called 911. He was dead monotone, then you could hear him start to break in the middle of the call, some sad s***.
The boy who eacaped is so damn brave. When I was abused, Id always dream about running to my neighbors, hoping they would care about me. That hopeless fear and isolation is and absolute nightmare.
Her behaviour is just weird. Caring parents understand that embarrassing things happen but they comfort their children and tell them it's nothing to be ashamed of. Also, regarding the messages being read, I've never felt more uncomfortable on somebody else's behalf. I knew someone at school who was outed because someone took his phone. He had to put up with bullying for months and that was bad enough. I can't imagine a million people on the Internet knowing my secrets or embarrassing moments
I remember my brother went on a very brief family vlogger special interest, so they were playing around the house a lot. I had issues with the concept, even the "happy" ones like Daily Bumps and Ellie and Jared- but when I started having a REAL issue was when he was watching DaddyoFive. I always thought they were the worst of the worst, but I should have known: it ALWAYS gets worse. These sick, disgusting pissstains disguising themselves as "people" find platforms and enjoyment to torture and abuse their own children and get clout from it. But, they thing that they don't understand is that they will ALWAYS get their just deserts for it. It's just not sustainable, they will ALWAYS get caught, they will ALWAYS face consequences, and if they haven't yet, it's our job to MAKE it happen, and make these situations right.
Yup! Agreed 100%! I'm glad they're stupid enough to film themselves abusing their kids. It's like they got neon sign saying "Hey! I'm evil and abusive! Look at me commit the crime! Arrest me baby cuz I am SOOOOO GUILTY!". And really! What did these idiot abusive parents expect?
I had to stop watching around five minutes in. People who exploit their kids like that are sick. As someone who was abused by both parents growing up, I'm afraid for these kids, and I hope they'll be alright.
Loved the scare content and I still do, But this is the stuff that i really appreciate. Thank you for making this stuff a lot more apparent to people that aren't caught up. This is the real life scare theatre
The more I learn about this situation, the more I'm reminded of Fantastic Adventures, who also did horrific things to their children. My heart truly goes out to all of those poor children.
my parents were abusive and threw me away like trash. i went into foster care and got treated the same way. Sadly there is way too much abuse and nowhere to put these kids so often they end up being abused even after they get taken away from their abusive parents. I hope that the kids are somewhere safe now.
I feared this was just gonna be another of multiple drama videos on the topic. Forgot it was, Eric, and it's very well done, researched and stated. Thanks for posting!
this is one of the best videos i've watched about the 8 passengers horror show. thank you for including the father in this as well, this is literally the only video to even mention that he might have taken some part in the abuse and it's infuriating watching people let him off the hook
Cases like this really make me wonder just what absolutely horrific, disgusting, and vile things people have gotten away with without anyone ever knowing...
Stuff like making sure their son isn't allowed to have any friends or a relationship with a female. My mother threatened to do serious harm to any girl I wanted to date. That's onto of her and her boyfriend constantly beating me. Her boyfriend threatened my life weekly. But since I'm a male no one would EVER listen
@@jamesTBurkeIt's awful that you went through that. It really is. But if you seriously think girls are believed anymore than boys, you're wrong. There are numerous cases of girls being abused, neglected, raped and murdered by their parents/stepparents and nobody ever helped them either. Don't make it a gender issue. You're better than that. Boys AND girls need better care and protection from abusers.
These people lived literally a few miles away from me, and we knew nothing about it. What terrified us most is because they were Mormon, the local news tried to gloss it over for so long until they couldn't any longer.
This reminds me of a case I saw, where the parents belonged to an offshoot church that really preached ‘not sparing the rod.’ One of their sons also lost his bedroom and was made to sleep in like a closet in the basement. Another of their children they got mad at on vacation. He was wanting to try and swim without floaties, and his mom said no, but he tried anyway. He almost drowned in the pool, and the parents didn’t bother to help bc the mom said he was guilty of being prideful.
Every time the children cry, she grabs a camera for content. I still can’t believe she took the sons bed for months leaving him to sleep on the floor/his beanie bag, took his phone, AND sent him away. Before the mom sent him to “camp” him and the other children complained about not having friends and how some people were even making fun of them about their videos on UA-cam. I’m glad her subscribers noticed and called CPS immediately!
While I am glad that witch and her cohort Jodi were arrested, I am infuriated that her husband hasn't been arrested. That man is equally responsible for child abuse as the mother for defending her and enabling the abuse. That bastard needs to be arrested ASAP. My heart goes out to those poor kids. No one should ever had to go through this. I hope they'll be far away from these monsters. God bless them.
15:34 it destroyed my soul hearing the neighbor start to choke up describing the state the twelve year old boy was in. Its insane that it got this far.
I started to choke up when the neighbor was clearly holding back tears talking to the 911 operator. That man has a good heart and he helped save those kids.
That got to me too. Like listen I'm not sensitive by any means, and in my current situation this could never happen to me, but imagining the anger, sadness, and pure intention of getting some kid help who has clearly been hurt by the people who are supposed to be the most loving kinda felt like a gut punch. I'm glad I haven't been in this situation because I might very well fly off the handle. "Oh, your parents are evil? Let's cull the evil from this land" type shit. No I'm not a violent person but everyone has something that will change them, and seeing some victim begging for help when their family neglected their needs (not out of being poor but out of malice) would make me want to become the justice we all think we deserve. All failures would be sewn in flesh. Maybe scarification of their sins on their forehead so they are seen as demons by anyone with a heart.
God maybe I watch too much TV. A quote from attack on Titan is fitting here. "To defeat the monsters, we must let go of our humanity and fight on their terms". I don't advocate for street justice but I certainly won't be upset if all abusers were literally forced out of society. I would feel no pity until they could prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that they have permanently changed for the better, which is nigh impossible for anyone who harms kids. At least if you commit crimes against adults, there is the possibility that they can defend themselves
I started crying around the same time as well. Keep in mind, I've been abused by my parents growing up so I know how it feels and hearing the conditions of that boy made me imagine something that happened similarly to me as well. I really wish there was something I could do to help these kids as a survivor of abuse myself..
Yeah, that moment got me, as well. Absolutely infuriating.
@@dimitrilitovsk2372something to take solice in is that most abusers are like, deeply miserable people by nature. Being toxic is a two way street, they poison other people but that poison comes from within them, which is an unhappy way to live for themselves as well as their victims. I do not envy having to live in the mind of someone who thinks starvation or tying children up with duct tape is appropriate punishment; or who tries to monetize every moment of their life by sharing private family moments on the internet; or who feels so petty and vindictive that they taunt their unfed children. They either find pleasure in the suffering of their own children, which is unfortunate for them too because it means they don't understand what a healthy family relationship is like, or they think that their methods are justified, which means they must feel constantly unsatisfied with their children and that feeling would also probably suck. The self fulfilling prophecy is that the world of an abuser is a miserable place where if they can't be happy, no one can. Lose/lose situation all around.
It’s so gut wrenching to hear the caller trying his hardest not to cry. He really does give a damn and cares for the safety of these kids. I hope he’s doing well.
This is straight up child abuse. It reminds me of DaddyOFive who also abused his children. The saddest part about this is that now these children may grow up thinking that this is acceptable parenting. You can see this with how nonchalant Chad's attitude is towards his parents forcing him to sleep on the floor
To be fair to them this lady is way worse as far as im aware his kids were still fed. He was a piece of shit no doubt this lady was a monster.
Exactly what i was thinking. They may no longer be getting physically abused, but the emotional and psychological abuse they suffered is probably still affecting them. They most likely need therapy and deprogramming after all of that. I just hope they can get the help they deserve.
@@mansendwish Sure, a person can sleep on the floor or on a beanbag IF they WANT to do so.
@@mansendwishwe really don't care what you like
@@mansendwish Taking your privacy and ability to make your own choices is "not so bad"? I hope you won't get kids ever.
She filmed herself several times admitting that she would withhold food from her children, what the fuck
And yet the UA-cam channel accumulated millions of subscribers and probably hundreds of millions, if not billions, of views over the years. Pretty sickening all around.
This is abhorrent; how did this not set off alarm bells from the get-go?
I was sent to bed without supper before but this woman took things to the next level & I'm not defending my parents doing it either. There are better ways to discipline children than denying them basic human needs.
@@Unregistered.HyperCam.2 A lot of the "think of the children" / "parental rights" crowd are actually totally okay with child abuse. Go figure.
I think that she thought by publicly admitting it and explaining why makes it no longer child abuse.
Yeah, that’s like if I rob someone and then explain why it was justified then it’s no longer stealing.
I can't really understand how someone can treat their own children this way, the lack of empathy is very saddening.
And to do it so publicly. I will never trust family vloggers.
they treat their children like property
My dad was like that except it was in private. Everyone outside the house thought my dad was the most amazing and nicest guy they had ever met. They didn't know he would emotionally damage me and my siblings. I got worst of it and it almost destroyed my marriage cause I let what he did to me run my life. It was only until about 5 months ago that I stopped letting it do that. I'm 31 years old and I actually suffer from PTSD because of him. Luckily it never became physical but it came close a few times.
yeah it’s just depressing
Beware of basic white women. Trash begets trash.
Update: Ruby Franke just pleaded guilty for multiple counts of child abuse, justice is being served 👍
Kevin still weaseling his way out though.
All kids deserve a parent. But not every parent deserve a kid
Well said
Don't know how many times I've heard same comment seems like everyone is using it and getting a bit boring now..
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 It's a pretty decent message that a lot of people should internalize. Good messages and narratives don't stop being important when you get bored of them
@@charlodynatimberheart4860well said
@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13Wish I could see it as boring but I was one of those kids so it's been nice seeing so many people say it.
Sorry that's boring you but like so what? 🤷🏻♀️
Love how ScareTheater went the extra mile and censored the children.
Goes to show how he actually respects their privacy unlike their own mother.
You know it sucks when some random UA-camr values your children’s privacy more than you
ScareTheater did a very good thing in doing that. I respect the guy a lot. He has matured a lot throughout the years. And I highly admire him a lot ngl. He's been a inspiration for me and others. I have to thank him a lot.
It’s amazing, he doesn’t just blur out their faces like many people would. It really does show a lot of respect for people who legitimately can’t consent to being shown online.
As respectful as he can be while still exposing this child abuse. Those kids have been victimized enough.
ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS!!😍💅💋🌌
15:06
This call hurt me. It sounds like the caller is about to cry.
Just imagine what they saw and heard, It's absolutely heart breaking.
Also, that dad is guilty as sin. I don't care what anyone says.
The way that people were painting him as a victim was just annoying. Like this man enabled, filmed, and encouraged every once of abuse just as much as Ruby did. Throw them all away!
@@maddie9655 He straight up and stated he prioritized his marriage over his own children.
@@HellyeahRookliterally. and thought that was a good defense
His lawyer was deliberate with saying the father wasn't involved with any "physical" abuse. If the court rules "physical" abuse as requiring direct contact, and treated withholding food or forcing the children to sleep on the floor as "negligence," then the lawyer wouldn't be lying about it from a legal standpoint. The lawyer didn't even say the father was anything _close_ to innocent, rather that he was simply not complicit in "physical" abuse. (Again, in the eyes of the court.)
It honestly feels like even the lawyer is disgusted with the father and has a massive burden on his shoulders defending him, but won't dismiss him as a client or break confidentiality because he doesn't want to be disbarred and be unable to help people that actually may _not_ be guilty of ANY crimes.
@@Unregistered.HyperCam.2I thought that was interesting too. Definitely not denying other abuse except physically
"The privilege of eating" I am speechless.
"Lot of behavior and emotional challenges " yeah if you abuse your children they will have challenges.
Parents making money from their children is despicable to begin with.
As a kid, my mother used to threaten to take away all my belongs if I said that I wanted to contact CPS or run away as a way to "teach me what not living at home was like." That was traumatizing enough, it makes me scared to lose things and I end up breaking down into tears if something goes missing. I can't imagine having to *actually* go through having something taken away like that.
Your parents did that too… I’m so sorry
what??? no, their parents were teaching them to learn how nice it is to have a roof over your head, this is a case of tough love. @@brunobucciaratiswife
We all out here with the same parents.
My mother used to do the same thing and Im weird about people moving my things or losing stuff. Reading this comment has made me realise the two are probably related. I'm not a hoarder or anything I'm fairly minimal but I grew up not being allowed to have anything in the house outside of my room.
my mom said cps wouldn’t accept me and if they did I would have a worse life
Child protection laws in the U.S. are outdated. They should've been taken away from her the second these videos started being uploaded.
Depends on what you are comparing it with. Here in Sweden, kids get taken away from their families who love them and they end up wh%cking themselves, there was a famous case a few weeks ago of a young girl wh%cking herself because they took her away from her (biological) parents and gave her to a family who abused her, SEVERAL times.
I have an EXTREMELY bad taste from past interactions with Child Protective Services from when I was a teen. My parents were/are amazing but CPS did anything they could to mess up our lives. Felt GREAT when I turned 18 to show up to the CPS persons office and flipping their desk over. I understand the need for Child Family Services in the US but they tend to do more harm than good.
@@Mere-Lachaiselongue They're bad. They don't have to compared to something that's also bad for it to be true
These cases are unfortunate but rare. It's important that the governnment cannot take away someone's kids without definite cause.
don't forget Canada.
The fact that Ruby is now saying one of her kids is a sexual predator is insane. That coupled with her beliefs that kids aren’t allowed privacy and blaming sex abuse victims for their own abuse makes me think some more horrific accusations are going to come to light about her and she’s already trying to set up a defense.
And I fully believe Ruby and Jodi are/were romantically involved.
Yeah like it doesn't even make sense, oh I saw my son committing a horrible crime, so instead of calling any services or help or police or anything, let me just tie him up and starve him for a long period of time in secrecy? Like... what??
Makes me wonder if she accused him before he could bring up any dirt about her in a attempt to look better?
It’d be one hell of a plot twist if they are romantically involved. I’m pretty sure Ruby is Mormon and they don’t look too kindly on lgbt people.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdleShe could be a hypocrite.
Honestly, the fact that they talk about their children's body hair and intrude on them when they're in the bathroom on camera just screams illegal bait to me
I've never heard of them taking any inappropriate photos of their kids.
@@damienreyna5879they were
@@damienreyna5879that doesn't make this okay, and the point is the word "bait". It's making it easier for OTHERS to prey on them. If you think taking pictures is what makes it borderline illegal, you need help.
@@damienreyna5879Who said anything about photos? They're trying to tempt the interest of creeps by talking about their children's bodies and intruding on their privacy.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 I don't disagree at all about trying to tempt interest from viewers on UA-cam. However, the way this woman spoke about "control" - specifically mentioning how only **she** has control in **her** home, that nobody else has *any* rights or privileges, to paraphrase - I don't think she was thinking about "creeps" in particular. Rather, it sounded like she was trying to create clickbait, and saw the children, and anything involving the children, as nothing more than a commodity for content creation.
In other words: I don't think the body hair or intruding in the bathroom was meant to be appealing for "creeps"(trying not to get shadow'd), rather just anything that could appear as clickbait of _any_ kind for the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of subscribers. I'd honestly say that's probably worse; millions of people see these children in this state and not only continue to watch, but share it around like it's all complete fiction.
As horrible as the adults on these kid's lives are, we should criticize more harshly Child Protective Services for not being more active on this case, when all the videos were out in public. A child had to literally escape and ask for help before they acted. What a backwards way of "protecting" from a government entity
CPS constantly drops the ball. I understand that it is very hard, but I feel like denying basic human needs to your children like food should have a no tolerance and your children should be taken away!
Cps only takes kids from poorer families that can't fight much for there kids.they take kids from even good hones for no reason but ignore abuse al the time even with DaddyOFive they act as if the mother knew nothing and she participated and it took public outrage for cops to even start getting involved.
cps is just a shadoworg that sends children to be trafficked why are we surprised
@paulohernanndizz3506As opposed to what? Locking up mentally ill people forever? Killing them?
If I recall with hearing from someone who use to work with CPS there was a lot of red tape to the point even with cases they did suspect highly likely being abusive there was nothing they could do without really strong evidence. I actually had when growing up a few case workers investigate my parents, but there wasn't enough evidence of "actual abuse". Sadly I just had to endure the abuse my mentally ill "mother" gave to me
The father 100% had to know what was going on. Also, how is withholding food and forcing your kids to sleep on the floor not physical abuse? I fear to know what else was going on in that house that we don't yet know about.
I feel like general neglect goes unpunished far more than physical abuse
Withholding food is abuse. Sleeping on the floor is not. A TempurPedic is not an inalienable right. There's kids all over the country Sleeping on a variety of surfaces. If it's not harmful- and sleeping on the floor absolutely is not- then it isn't abuse.
Forcing your child to sleep on the floor and taking away their right to sleep in their own bed in their own room is absolutely child abuse PERIOD. You are worthy of capital punishment.@@mommy2libras
The sad truth is CPS only cares about the bare minimum, they too have numbers and quotas to meet, meaning the less children they pull from houses the better it looks for them. They will interview children in front of their parents even if the allegations of abuse include the parents being the perpetrators.
If parents withhold food but there is food in the home the manner in which cps might handle it is simply finger wagging at the parents to feed the kids and the case being unfounded as they move on. If the family appears middle class or of higher class, it is even less likely they will be scrutinized, white families even less so. Of course nOt aLl cps workers are incompetent but please understand the entire system dictates a policy that demands a high level of abuse to be proven before removing the children is even an option.
@@mommy2libras i hope cps takes your children away, a bed is absolutely a human right for any child
Why are they targeting the youngest children? I can't tell you just how heart broken I would be if I woke up and saw my other siblings got presents but I didn't. These people are cruel.
She clearly takes pleasure in watching the youngest get hissy and cry because the reactions are funny.
Id get it if it wasnt my own kid....but like, thats *your* kid man.
i may be misunderstanding this but are you saying its okay for this to happen to step children? cause if so, just seek help man..@@ratatouilledrinksclorax9897
If this had been going on for all the children's entire lives, the older ones are probably extremely desensitized, while the younger ones still far more easily elicit a reaction.
On top of that, when the parents are aware of what they've actually done to the heads of the older children in particular, they'd probably be wetting their pants at the thought of what harm an older teenager(read as: a raging ball of hormones) could potentially inflict if they're set off bad enough, after so many years of all this.
As a female who grew up with an eating disorder, I can tell you that my mother denying me a meal would have only encouraged my disease. And I know that girls are not the only ones who deal with EDs, it affects boys as well, but I don't think I know a woman who hasn't done something like skip a meal or use a diuretic or laxative to "lose a quick few" at some point in their lives. It's an epidemic and we don't talk about it enough.
I'm not a mom, I can't have kids, but I know enough to say that using denial of food as a punishment is extremely dangerous. It's one thing if the kid is picky and won't eat what you cooked. Then you can say, "You eat this, or you don't get anything." (Although I feel like, even in those situations, parents will at least offer their child a healthy alternative, like some fruit, so that they don't go to bed hungry. Starving a child is a form of child abuse.) You need to be cognizant of what methods you're using to discipline your children. Even before the arrest, the "8 Passengers" channel was a really great example of what NOT to do!
Agreed. Discipline and malicious harm are two different things. Discipline isn't fun but it's necessary. Malicious harm is evil, in pure form. I'm not religious but if God or Satan exist, Satan is the people who harm kids for "discipline". Like yeah sometimes I didn't like to eat what my mom made, but after she made it two or three times and I didn't eat it, she would make me a cup ramen or Mac and cheese instead of the planned dinner.
Granted no parents are perfect, but there's a fine line between a shitty home situation and shitty parents. In a shitty home you still get love. With shitty parents you get trauma, assuming you get out of it fine enough to function in society.
It's so sad. I don't have any words other than I hope the kids can get the help that they deserve, and that the people who abused them get what they deserve too, unfortunately even if the abusers have broken glass in their feet for the rest of their lives, it won't undo the harm they caused 😢
"youre gonna lose the privilege to eat dinner"
ma'am, food is a fundamental human right, not a privilege.
Privacy is also a human right, and you know what she thought of that..
I bet she's one of those "human rights are just privileges" people. You know, the best and definitely not problematic or dangerous at all people that everybody loves to be around. :)
Say that to Capitalists
@@EnderCorePL who's starving
Actually the U.N. held a vote and the United States said no. There's no right to food in the U.S.
The fact that the neighbor is crying out of compassion and worry for the kids state during the call, while the mother is using the court hearing most likely in a last ditch attempt to enact control, to separate the children with her delusions and lies is telling all you need to know. The fact that she had "things the audience didn't know" shows that it was intentional and aware too. I hope prison sucks for them both. Let's see how ready to coNeCt the inmates are. I heard most don't take kindly to child abusers.
13:26 "No Ruby, I really don't. You sound like a fucking psycho."
Cathartic to hear. I don't need therapy for my upbringing I need the ScareTheater video that roasts tf out of it
Thats the first time i heard him cuss in a video before
"What did you do to put yourself in the position to be taken advantage of?" Oh that is vile. Absolute evil
As a survivor of child abuse this is absolutely heartbreaking. The parents method of punishments are completely deprived of empathy, and the impacts of those decisions could last a lifetime. My heart goes out to the siblings and I can only wish the best for their futures.
@Cukli_da_real_homie and I hope someone out there is kind enough to give you a change of heart.
@Cukli_da_real_homie what?
i cant even fathom how many more families on this platform do terrible things like this when the camera is off.
Quite a few. Think about how much this happened before youtube....
Daddyofive was a good example. (Past tense is on purpose btw)
Lots of them. They're already narcissists for exploiting their children and exposing them to millions of strangers for attention and cash. They're all bad. None of their children can consent to being paraded online for weirdos to gawp at.
Ruby is a genuine psychopath, a narcissist who obsesses hierarchy over the well-being of her children. The only moments when she smiles is when she humiliates her children. Not only that, but the fact that in the wake of overwhelming evidence of her abuse before court, her only thought was to accuse her son of faulty SA allegations really reveals whom Ruby is: a Karen. I genuinely hope those kids will find a loving home and I hope that mother rots in jail, far from any children.
False SA accusations towards children isn’t “Karen” behavior. It’s sociopathy. Way past the threshold of pettiness of Karens. Closer to serial killers and rapists
Preach!
So many people who would give anything to be loving and amazing parents don’t get that chance. But it really seems like the most fertile people are the fucking worst parents. I hope these babies can heal from what these monsters put them through…
@@dasiajb Every child deserves a parent; but not every parent deserves a child.
Her husband is a massive coward and wimp. And also a sadistic narcissist who is a schemer.
Abusing your family for content and views is one of the most pathetic things to ever do.
Even more so then some goanimate users who would make hundreds of punishment day videos, all because they hated the most hated cartoon character which is caillou by the way along with so children show characters that are sometimes not a caillou-leveled brat and theres one video where at the end of the video Boris (from a show caillou that is parody in goanimate) would said "Child abuse is a good thing and makes life better" and also those characters are fictional said by the fans of those users
Which is messed I if you ask me
@@Da.Liar-Pigi’m sorry, what?! i gotta research and look into this. never heard of it before!
@@Da.Liar-Pigthats so disgusting
And now Kevin is threatening to sue his eldest daughter for theft because she allegedly took things from the house when grabbing essentials for her siblings. You know, that house he hasn't been to in over a year so of course he wouldn't have known the abuse going on in it. But somehow that doesn't stop him from knowing when things are missing.
Don't forget, they use these kids for the money for the house, so the house is practically the children's house anyway.
Thank you for mentioning how Kevin is basically getting off Scot free with all this. There’s been this weird push to sanitize his role in all this, when he very actively participated in the abuse of the children and actively defended Ruby’s negligence on multiple occasions. Maybe he didn’t know the full extent, but I refuse to believe he deserves custody of any of his children.
While I think he was a spineless helper and not the one who came up with the idea, his cowardice is no excuse.
@@zacharyriley4561Well yes, but to play devils advocate, Ruby would very likely try to ruin Kevin with say…a false rape accusation, if she’d do that with her own kids, why would he be safe?
@@lizardwithinternet1314 Fair enough.
@@zacharyriley4561 Believe me, someone like her would definitely hold false allegations over your head to keep your mouth shut.
@@lizardwithinternet1314 True.
I know some people may disagree but one of the worst things I've seen from this family was taking Christmas away from their two youngest children. Children sincerely look forward to Christmas all year and attempt to be as self aware as a child can be. For those a**holes to take that away from them is beyond cruel and unfortunately its situations like that one that will give children resentments they won't understand hurting them in the long run more than anything. This entire channel, I hope, will be a parenting lesson in what NOT to do.
Hearing a grown man tear up by the sight of the abused boy is heartwrecking.
The police photos of his wounds were recently released and… jesus. His poor ankles and wrists look almost necrotic. Like the kind of wounds you find on diabetics or krokodil addicts. Whatever you’re imagining right now, the real thing is worse. Those children deserve nothing but peace, privacy, and healing.
Why do people like this feel like they have to record every moment of their life and do things like this, just for money? Horrible
See that shit alot these days
@Cukli_da_real_homie chaotic evil
Because there are millions of weirdos willing to watch them and gawp at stranger's children. The whole thing is a disgrace.
The neighbor cared more for the kids than the actual parents, I can hear him holding back tears.
So I can actually speak on the reason why Ruby said one of her kids is a sexual predator at the first hearing. a family member of mine works in both a court and child protective field. If a potential/known predator is a means of concern, especially a victim amongst a group of victims, the kids wouldn’t be able to stay together if that was the case. They wouldn’t allowed to be in a care facility or a foster home together at all, minimizing their contact. Aka, she’s further breaking down these children. They can’t comfort one another, they’re in an unfamiliar environment, and they can’t speak up and agree on a shared perspective together. She’s abusing them even now from afar.
Thank you for bringing attention to this.
Horrible people, the purpose of having children is to bring joy in to their lives and share a loving respectful space
If you don’t wish to do that, do not have them, they don’t owe you anything, especially not fame.
Shit is pure evil, I hope she and her husband get arrested
No you dont see, constant belittling and bullying of children, also pouring spices into their open wounds makes strong men and women for society, sure, they may break down in public out of nowhere due to being incredibly emotionally unstable due to this but they'll atleast....probably will be matured adults, just expect to be abandoned when youre elderly.
@@ratatouilledrinksclorax9897Bad bait
The fact that her daughter is apparently going around "cutting things" (who knows what the real truth of this incident was anyway) is alarming in of itself, given how young she is in that clip. Red flags abound in literally every clip of this family, it's sickening that things were left alone this long.
You can tell the older boy is already showing signs of the sadism his parents have shown to him. His "prank" definitely had the same kind of sickening motivation of hurting the youngersibling. This shit is so blatantly vile. CPS showing, as usual, why government is useless and never actually helps with anything.
There's a potential here that so much worse was so normalized that he really didn't think it was that bad. I could be wrong, but I'd hate to see people assume the worse based on what he did when he was in that madhouse. Hopefully he's getting better now.
The government is ruthlessly effective.
Just look at how it will prosecute a war, slash taxes for the wealthy and benefits for the rest, pursue errors in taxes etc.
It's a grand ruse that the government pulls to convince you that it's helplessly ineffective by making your experience with the DMV (and similar) reflect that. But it conceals just how effective the government can be when they want.
You do realize that millions of older siblings pull these sorts of "pranks"- and much worse- on their younger siblings all over the world and with a variety of parents mright? Acting like this is some new or extraordinary behavior that is the result of these specific parents is ignorant- kids have been doing crap like this since the beginning of time and for no other reason than they think it's "fun" to torment their younger siblings. Is it cruel and they should be punished? Absolutely. But is it relatively normal behavior? Yes. It absolutely is. There's some kid somewhere right this second doing something to torment one of their younger siblings- hiding their favorite stuffed animal or telling them they were adopted or telling them that if they get out of bed after 10 pm the boogeyman will eat them or simply that their parents don't actually like them or something else equally as horrible.
Did they say how old the older and younger brother were at the time of the prank? Honest question, because I didn't catch any ages except the youngest daughter, and one being out of the house and in college. If the siblings were, say, four years apart, and the older one was, say, eight at the time, with the younger being four, that would sound like a pretty normal and relatively harmless prank. If they're ten years apart, though, with the older being, say, 14 at the time of the incident and the younger being four, this is a different ballgame.
Reminds me a lot of the oldest child in the Daddy O Five situation. Kids will copy what’s been normalized to them, monsters will inevitably create monsters.
I watched your interview on why you left YT. I'm just glad u came back. It's like seeing an old friend. Hope you don't quit for good, even a video a month is better than nothing. Just to see u're doing ok.
When the neighbor called 911, you could hear how shocked and horrified he was. Heartbreaking. This woman deserves the absolute very worst.
Can't believe I caught a Scaretheater upload on time.
On a serious note, how can people even fathom the thought of doing something like this, let alone go through with it? Clout is one hell of a drug.
This is beyond clout. There's a clip of her from a podcast saying the camera being on helped her NOT be rageful to her kids. She was abusive before she was a "mommy vlogger"
This ain’t for “clout” these abusive people have always existed, just nowadays everyone has a camera too
Family channels should be considered child abuse. It's invasive, potential pedo bait, and psychologically damaging to these poor kids. I'm not usually for UA-cam banning anyone, but I think this genre is borderline illegal, and should be treated as such.
No one ever talks about the pedo bait but you're so fcking right
I agree with all that you said
Ok but what if everyone agrees? What then?
It's such narcissism. It's like selling your soul for brief celebrity status
Thank you ScareTheater for putting the spotlight on situations like these that go untalked about. 👍
im not too sure on being untalked since there are already videos on them but im interested on his takes
bro every popular youtuber talked about it. stop kissing ass lol
This is a trending topic right now. So not unknown. But I do like him fully doing coverage of the backstory so people who haven't been calling out the parents for years before this, get caught up. Ruby was a monster before Jodi. Jodi just helped drive it to new levels.
i did not know about this, but i’m happy to be informed of this horrible person.
I couldnt imagine having a mother/father like that. I feel so soery for those kids. Im sad it took so long for something to be done. Seeing thag this happen to those kids breaks my heart as a mother and a person in general.
What’s sad is that there are thousands of “family channels” exploiting their children and getting away with it
They should all be banned. None of the kids are able to consent and they're being used by their narcissist parents. It's disgusting.
I can't imagine all the mental and physical pain that the kids have gone through. Not to mention their life being broadcasted to the world which fueled their frustration and hopelessness knowing that their true life is being covered up by their mother on the something as public as the internet.
On a lighter note, you never a dull upload. Well researched and very indepth!
That part where she threatens to cut the plushie's head off? Damn, that caused a major surge of anxiety. My birther (my so-called mother) did the same thing to me when I was around six. I'm thirty next year, and I can still remember how I screamed and cried, absolutely terrified. The trauma stays with me, and sometimes when it resurfaces, I'm thrown back into our kitchen, staring at a pair of scissors around my favorite plushie's neck. It was one of the worst things I'd experienced up until that point.
I still have that plushie, and it's pretty raggedy, but in one piece.
I'm glad that I was born in the 90s. I would've been a victim of this kinda behavior if I'd been born a lot later. My birther was a narcissist, who loved to torment me, with or without an audience. I cannot, for the life of me, understand how someone can be this cruel to their own child. Why? How? I can't, and probably never will, understand.
This is insane. How can someone be able to do that to a person?? Especially their OWN KID??? like, how do you not feel guilt?!! What the hellmman
Because some women are psychotic abusers
This is generally a disturbint rabbit hole, I feel so bad for those children that were tormented with cruel punishments, And the fact that the mother physically abused her children in a cruel manner is pretty heartbreaking, I'm glad justice is being served, This mother is just sick.
genuinely love this new era of scaretheathre where they are unapologetically angry towards shitty people
Thank you for bringing more awareness to this topic. I feel like it’s not talked about as often as it should, and I’m glad a popular channel like you would bring awareness to this! 😊
thank you for talking about this. thank god the kids are getting justice
It speaks volumes that the neighbor was in tears over the state of the child, but his mother was like "Whatever".
"No texting at the dinner table! *holds a camera up to record for the entire meal*"
The scariest part about this is .. she thinks what she's doing is right ..
Everytime I hear that neighbour on the 911 call, it's just gut wrenching. You can just hear how devastated he is by trying to grasp what the boy has been through. Ruby and Jodi are super creepy because they don't even realize their own psychopathy.
Almost all family channels out there weird me out. Can't imagine what these kids went through.
I Hope we get an update video when the psycho's trial ends.
They're all disgusting. You already have to be a massive narcissist to want to parade your children online for strangers to gawp at for attention and money. They should all be banned. None of the kids in any of these creepy families can consent.
Withholding food is the absolute best way to give your kids ED or just make an already existing ED 10x worse absolutely rancid behaviour and that phone call at around 15:50 is just heartbreaking
“No phones at dinner”
*says whilst recording the fucking dinner*
The tears on that phone call really got me, I hope those kids will find peace
I've had personal experience and experience with friends. Often times calling CPS just does more harm than good. Nearly every abuse victim I know who sought out CPS only ended up worse off after contacting them.
I know that first hand smdh
They ordered family therapy for us and after 3 months of going over the same things every week, the case was closed. I begged the therapist to tell them nothing changed - I was a complete sobbing mess - and the therapist told me to "give them a chance" as if I hadn't been doing that every week.
Nothing changed aside from my narcissistic mother being convinced that she's obviously not abusive because I wasn't taken away (she wasn't even my legal guardian, her parents were) and me questioning if I was trying hard enough- as the child. Spoiler alert - I was the only one trying. I even put myself into therapy a few years later (at age 12) because I wanted to "be better" but I was never the problem.
@@sourgreendolly7685 Therapists getting paid 6 figures to make lives even worse (They are enjoying it)
Too often they do too little or too much. It's never evaluated properly.
@@JadedBelleNot only that but it just allows for abusive parents to better hide abuse. Which leads to CPS not being able to build an adequate case.
@@maddie9655 Agree. It can be a catch-22 for those in these jobs. It can also be overloaded caseloads, loopholes, etc. In my opinion, it's a position rife with tough situations to solve even if you do everything in your power while working around enforced limitations.
The name is so low key sadistic, “8 passengers” like there’s 8 passengers and they’re all going down with the ship😂
It’s a fucking weird name tbh, sounds like a cult
The laughing emoji was unnecessary and seems bizarre when you're talking about abused children.
This is really fucked up, actually. I am at the part where he is talking about the shower scene and it is just so sad. Especially considering how she is willing to show this. What is she not? This is some of the most invasive stuff I have ever seen and it seriously pisses me off.
I appreciate your blurring of the children's faces.
Pov: No father figure
@@BulkBogan1920 pov: unecessary insult under a video about child abuse which has pro trans messaging
@@BulkBogan1920 fix yourself loser
Ywnbaw
@BulkBogan1920 at least 3 of your comments on this channel are dedicated to being afraid of trans people. seethe harder
I have lived in Utah for my entire life. The faux righteous and wholesome behavior is common here. There are very few people who are authentic living here, I have seen mothers like Ruby Franky but luckily they weren't full on abusive.
Shocked at how long this was going on before something actually happened to get these kids out of that abusive household. Even with those videos it shows that these kids were mistreated by their parents. I hope all victims involved are doing well and healing from this traumatic experience.
This heavily reminded me of the Turpin family case. I can't believe that was only in 2018. My heart breaks for all the kids who never got out from "parents" like these.
I feel so bad for the daughter when the mum threatens to cut the teddys head off. That’s a disgusting way to threaten your kid and it’s not gonna do anything but make them scare you, some parents do not deserve the innocence and love of a child
I'm in shock that a mother could do this to her children, it's just horrific. When she threatened to cut the head off of the little girl's toy, I started tearing up, that woman is a monster.
Why didn't she just put the scissors out of the child's reach like normal parents do..
She loves torturing her poor kids.
A lot of what she did is not okay. I can't imagine letting a child, at any age, go hungry as "a consequence" for forgetting their lunch. Or taking away their room for MONTHS. Food and basic necessities should not be used as punishment.
@@vanessar.6085 Yeah, no, nothing she did was ok, it was just super upsetting to see that little girl cry like that on account of her own mother. I wouldn't want to see any more of their reactions to any of the horrific torture she put those kids through. It was also heartbreaking to hear the neighbor's voice, who called 911. He was dead monotone, then you could hear him start to break in the middle of the call, some sad s***.
The old man in the phone starting crying while describing to the responder what he saw, made me cry with him
I earnestly hope this woman never experiences another moment of peace in her life. What an absolute waste of flesh.
Oh, and I hope her husband meets the front of a city bus for supporting and enabling this shit.
The boy who eacaped is so damn brave. When I was abused, Id always dream about running to my neighbors, hoping they would care about me. That hopeless fear and isolation is and absolute nightmare.
Her behaviour is just weird. Caring parents understand that embarrassing things happen but they comfort their children and tell them it's nothing to be ashamed of.
Also, regarding the messages being read, I've never felt more uncomfortable on somebody else's behalf. I knew someone at school who was outed because someone took his phone. He had to put up with bullying for months and that was bad enough. I can't imagine a million people on the Internet knowing my secrets or embarrassing moments
I remember my brother went on a very brief family vlogger special interest, so they were playing around the house a lot. I had issues with the concept, even the "happy" ones like Daily Bumps and Ellie and Jared- but when I started having a REAL issue was when he was watching DaddyoFive. I always thought they were the worst of the worst, but I should have known: it ALWAYS gets worse. These sick, disgusting pissstains disguising themselves as "people" find platforms and enjoyment to torture and abuse their own children and get clout from it.
But, they thing that they don't understand is that they will ALWAYS get their just deserts for it. It's just not sustainable, they will ALWAYS get caught, they will ALWAYS face consequences, and if they haven't yet, it's our job to MAKE it happen, and make these situations right.
Yup! Agreed 100%! I'm glad they're stupid enough to film themselves abusing their kids. It's like they got neon sign saying "Hey! I'm evil and abusive! Look at me commit the crime! Arrest me baby cuz I am SOOOOO GUILTY!".
And really! What did these idiot abusive parents expect?
I had to stop watching around five minutes in. People who exploit their kids like that are sick. As someone who was abused by both parents growing up, I'm afraid for these kids, and I hope they'll be alright.
I wanna say I appreciate scare for not pulling punches, a lot of people are going way too easy on this monster.
Loved the scare content and I still do, But this is the stuff that i really appreciate. Thank you for making this stuff a lot more apparent to people that aren't caught up. This is the real life scare theatre
I pray those kids are with good families who actually care about them now
No child deserves that treatment
Just got news that both Ruby and Jodi have been sentenced to at least 4 years in prison. The full sentence is yet to be determined.
The more I learn about this situation, the more I'm reminded of Fantastic Adventures, who also did horrific things to their children. My heart truly goes out to all of those poor children.
my parents were abusive and threw me away like trash. i went into foster care and got treated the same way. Sadly there is way too much abuse and nowhere to put these kids so often they end up being abused even after they get taken away from their abusive parents. I hope that the kids are somewhere safe now.
I feared this was just gonna be another of multiple drama videos on the topic. Forgot it was, Eric, and it's very well done, researched and stated. Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
When I hear Ruby talk, all I hear is how much she hates her children.
15:38 that man couldn't even keep himself together that's horrible and sad he had to go to make that call
damn that guy broke down talking about the child...shit it must've been really bad
Omg thank you for posting, I was so bored. 😩💖
Same! ST is awesome as always!
real
No problem
God bless you in the name of Jesus Christ, who is the name above all names & the only way to Heaven❤
Really hope their fellow inmates hear about this case.
Ahhh, yes, the tutorial to get your kids to cut you off the millisecond, they turn 18.
Why is EVERY family channel like this?
Hearing that man on the phone crying over the state of that child made me tear up. Those kids deserve better.
Hearing the poor neighbour breaking down broke my heart
Love it whe ScareTheater uploads. I can always just feel him filling me up with his research.
this is one of the best videos i've watched about the 8 passengers horror show. thank you for including the father in this as well, this is literally the only video to even mention that he might have taken some part in the abuse and it's infuriating watching people let him off the hook
Cases like this really make me wonder just what absolutely horrific, disgusting, and vile things people have gotten away with without anyone ever knowing...
Stuff like making sure their son isn't allowed to have any friends or a relationship with a female. My mother threatened to do serious harm to any girl I wanted to date. That's onto of her and her boyfriend constantly beating me. Her boyfriend threatened my life weekly. But since I'm a male no one would EVER listen
@@jamesTBurke oh god, that's horrible. i'm so sorry you had to go through that
@@jamesTBurkeIt's awful that you went through that. It really is. But if you seriously think girls are believed anymore than boys, you're wrong. There are numerous cases of girls being abused, neglected, raped and murdered by their parents/stepparents and nobody ever helped them either. Don't make it a gender issue. You're better than that. Boys AND girls need better care and protection from abusers.
These people lived literally a few miles away from me, and we knew nothing about it. What terrified us most is because they were Mormon, the local news tried to gloss it over for so long until they couldn't any longer.
"She is responsible for packing her own lunch" bro I thought she was 12 or something but 6 is just insane.
Pretty messed up that this would’ve gone pretty much unnoticed if they didn’t shove cameras into everything
This reminds me of a case I saw, where the parents belonged to an offshoot church that really preached ‘not sparing the rod.’ One of their sons also lost his bedroom and was made to sleep in like a closet in the basement. Another of their children they got mad at on vacation. He was wanting to try and swim without floaties, and his mom said no, but he tried anyway. He almost drowned in the pool, and the parents didn’t bother to help bc the mom said he was guilty of being prideful.
Luckily yesterday justice was served, Ruby and Jodi’s sentencing took place and are both are receiving up to 30 to 60 years for what they did.
Starving your children is *NOT* a little, cute punishment. It is CHILD ABUSE! The mother *recording* their *vulnerability* for content is SICK! 😢
Every time the children cry, she grabs a camera for content. I still can’t believe she took the sons bed for months leaving him to sleep on the floor/his beanie bag, took his phone, AND sent him away. Before the mom sent him to “camp” him and the other children complained about not having friends and how some people were even making fun of them about their videos on UA-cam. I’m glad her subscribers noticed and called CPS immediately!
The fact that she got away with it for so long is honestly baffling and really horrifying
While I am glad that witch and her cohort Jodi were arrested, I am infuriated that her husband hasn't been arrested. That man is equally responsible for child abuse as the mother for defending her and enabling the abuse. That bastard needs to be arrested ASAP. My heart goes out to those poor kids. No one should ever had to go through this. I hope they'll be far away from these monsters. God bless them.
15:34 it destroyed my soul hearing the neighbor start to choke up describing the state the twelve year old boy was in. Its insane that it got this far.