Parenting recommendation YouTuber Ruby Franke arrested on suspicion of kid abuse in Utah

A former YouTuber who gave on-line parenting recommendation has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated little one abuse after two of her kids have been discovered to be malnourished.

Ruby Franke, whose now defunct 8 Passengers channel adopted her household, was arrested on Wednesday in Utah and brought into custody.

Franke’s 12-year-old son had climbed out of a window within the metropolis of Ivins and ran to a neighbour’s home on Wednesday morning earlier than asking for meals and water, in accordance with an affidavit filed by an officer with the Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department.

According to the doc, the neighbour noticed duct tape on the boy’s ankles and wrists and referred to as regulation enforcement.

The boy was taken to a hospital, the place he was placed on a medical maintain “due to his deep lacerations from being tied up with rope and from his malnourishment,” arrest data present.

Franke’s 10-year-old daughter was later discovered malnourished and was additionally taken to the hospital, officers stated. Two different of Franke’s kids have been within the custody of kid safety companies, the affidavit stated.

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Franke was arrested alongside her enterprise companion and collaborator, Jodi Hildebrandt, who’s the founding father of the controversial life counselling organisation ConneXions Classroom. The two ladies create recommendation movies that critics say promote a harsh model of parenting.

On Thursday, a decide denied Franke bail after a detective cited “the severity of the injuries of her two kids located in the home,” and instructed the decide the Department of Child and Family Services had taken 4 of Franke’s kids into custody with the officer but to talk to 2 of them.

Who is Ruby Franke?

Franke and her husband launched their household YouTube channel, 8 Passengers, in early 2015. The channel chronicled the lives of the mother and father and their six kids and had practically 2.3 million subscribers.

As many household channels on YouTube do, 8 Passengers centered on parenting model, the kids’s upbringing and self-discipline as the children grew up in Utah. The mother and father, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (often called the Mormon Church), additionally shared their kids’s residence education.

Although the Frankes grew a large following, the household turned the topic of harsh criticisms lately.