Kevin Franke, alienated husband shame Utah parent blogger And the convicted abuser of children Ruby Franke says he “regretted” because he had dropped his wife into chaos.
Ruby Franke, a 43-year-old mother for six years, and Jodi Hildebrandt, a 55-year-old mother of two, led the community Parenting and lifestyle of the YouTube channel Called Connexions classrooms before arrested and acknowledged guilty for four of the six points of abuse of second -degree children in St. George in December 2023.
“The bottom line is: I decided to trust a licensed advisor for professional mental health and my wife, and they gave some terrible advice. And I regret. And I wish I didn’t do those things,” said Kevin Franke said “Good morning America” In an interview that was broadcast on Tuesday morning.
Ruby and Hildebrandt have joined to create a common parental and lifestyle, or video blog, called Connexions classrooms that sold sessions of consultation, packages and withdrawal ranges from several hundred to several thousand dollars.
Blogger Ruby Franke is closed in Utah for abuse of children. (Instagram/ Mams_of_truth)
“I think I’ll never stop loving her,” Kevin said when asked if he still loved Ruby. “Does that mean that I want to let her go back to my life? Let her go back to the life of my children? Absolutely no.”
Prior to the Connexions classroom, Franke had been chasing his own parental -called parent -called 8 -year -old, presenting himself, presenting himself, his husband and their six children. Her social media pages of the 8th -ranked family generated most of the family revenue when she gained popularity. Ruby’s videos shared an intimate view of the seemingly perfect life of their family and had more than 2.5 million subscribers before the fall.
Mom’s blogger Ruby Franke asked her daughter for one thing before the arrest: memoir
However, popularity began to decay after her eldest son was nonchalantly acknowledged in one of the videos, which he posted in his account that he had been sleeping on a bag for seven months as a punishment for his behavior. Hildebrandt entered Ruby’s life after 8 passengers fell apart, and two friends decided to create a Connexions classrooms.
In one episode in the Connexions classroom, Ruby tells his viewers, “If your child comes to you in the fire, you do not move them on your head and say,” It’s okay, I’ll help you. “No, you beat them and hit them and hit them with a stick.
Kevin Franke tells the police in an interview in August 2023 that he has not seen his children for more than a year after the police arrested his wife, Ruby Franke and her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt. (Office of the Washington District)
Kevin and his eldest son, Chad Franke, have been saying for the first time since Ruby has been convicted and in front of the premiere of a new documentary about Ruby’s crimes called “The Devil in the Family: Pad Ruby Franke.”
The documentary includes the Ruby clippings, which is thrown into her family in newly discovered videos who failed on her profiles on social networks.
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The Utah authorities found two malnourished and exhausted children in a home in Utah before the arrest of Franke and Hildebrandt. (Instagram/ Mams_of_truth)
In one piston Ruby orders Chad to “be fake happy.”
“I think after the companies started coming to us, offering big script money,” things began to change, Chad said “GMA”, adding that his mother’s social networks were a “chaotic experience”.
“A lot of shouting, a lot of cracking, a lot of time in the corner,” he recalled.
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In earlier videos without hildebrandt, Franke complains of his children’s school using a ticter to teach dances, the danger of sleep, harassment and other topics. Some of her videos include her husband, including the “live pair workshop” on finance management. (YouTube/ Connexions)
The Utah authorities eventually arrested Ruby and Hildebrandt in August 2023. For the abuse of Franke’s two youngest children, a 9-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, after years of effort Ruby’s oldest daughter Shari Franke, to get the family and children’s services department take measures against their mother. Some of the abuse took place in Hildebrandt’s multi -million dollar house in Ivins, Utah.
The allegations against Franke and Hildebrandt came to light only after Frank’s son fled to Hildebrandt’s Ivins home and ran to a neighbor, who called 911 after seeing a malnourished boy with a ribbon on his wrists.
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Most families in the area were aware that Franke had a YouTube channel called 8passengers, her neighbor told Fox News Digital. When she launched another vlog on Facebook called “Mama of Truth”/ Connexions with Hildebrandt, “several” neighbors became “very concerned” with the content, the neighbor said. (Moms of Truth/ Instagram)
“It was so unusual for me that it had to be invented,” Kevin Franke said, “GMA,” when asked about his initial reaction to his wife’s arrest.
Franke and Hildebrandt were both doomed to disposal four consecutive mandates between at least 30 and up to 60 years in prison.
Now, Kevin warns about the dangers of social media after the once -private life of his family was put under the microscope.
Ruby Franke and her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, were sentenced to Utah prison for abuse of children. (Instagram/ Mams_of_truth)
“There is a real danger when you place yourself or your family, your children, put public social media on public social media,” GMA said. “
In dozens of videos on YouTube and Social Media posts, Franke and Hildebrandt trained parents in calm votes from the couch for the living room to raise their children in “Truth”. In a video posted just before their arrests, Hildebrandt said pain can be a good thing for children of a certain age.
The case has encouraged discussions about how blogs for parenting and lifestyle often represent only a slider of a person or family reality, as well as children’s rights to their own privacy if their parent of stars is on social networks.
