Former family vlogger Ruby Franke was sentenced to four consecutive one-to-15 year terms in prison after a monthslong child abuse case.
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#RubyFranke #ChildAbuse #Court
Putting a child’s head under water is very bad. My parents spanked us most of the time and that was it.
That Mormon town and community is responsible for this going on that long because they all help each other out, as long as you’re white and privileged in that town you can get away with anything…just ask her husband.
Crocodile tears
60 years no murder? Just want the system to make sense.
This are two vicious, nasty women.
Crying for herself and trying to blame that other horrible woman … 🤔
Why isn’t anyone thanking or celebrating the prosecutor in this case? That’s where some of your tax money goes
The husband is implicit in this…
Up to 4 years!! Get that right!!
Ruby Franke needs Jesus.
She is a truly sick and evil woman. I am so glad she is being held accountable for her terrible actions.
Oh boy
What a beautiful heart warming ending to know they both will be treated worse than how they treated the kids.
Ruby Franke’s statement? I don’t believe one word of it. “I believed dark was light and right was wrong…” Seriously? She still did those horrible, despicable things! She is only expressing “remorse” because she got caught.
Rub Franke is evil. Jodi Hildebrandt is evil.
Do you know who her facial expressions remind me of; Amanda Knox a real Jekyll and Hyde character.
This is not just disorientation, this is evil! She had so many moments to think about if what she did was right… So. No forgiveness. Thats what narcissists do, in order to not feel bad. Forgivness is a false concept. If you want people to regret what they did and get a punishment by incarcerating them, they should not get the easy (mental) way out. They have to sit with what they have done. After they served, they can ask for forgivness.
Her sentencing; thats funny
They’ll both get a dose of prison justice. See how they like that.
Bertha and Laqueesha can’t wait! Mmmm.
Thank god her son escaped and raised the alarm to the abuse, it was only a matter of time before she murdered one or all of them.
🥳🎉🎊💝💝💝
Wow. The justice system worked for once.
I think 60 yrs is too much
Reaping what you have sowed.
He that laughs last laughs the longest – so true
The USA is still nr. one when it comes to trying to do the right thing
If she was a gop politician, then she could abuse children 😂
1:57 The judge🎉
I don’t believe her crocodile tears apology. This is not an aberration – she did this for years. Her son was restrained and emaciated. She knew what she was doing.
She’s sorry. Sorry that she was caught.
Yeah right good actress
Franke: “I was led to believe that this world was an evil place,…”
Parts of it is, as a direct result of her actions.
This is what the delusions of religion, lead some people to do.
You’ll never hear an atheist say, the devil made me do it
Animals smh
Monsters
From ‘Fame and Fortune’. To Shame and Mis-Fortune. She’ll be remembered for a while.😢😅😂
Yet another Mormon mommy influencer goes down.. I’ve lost count of now.
Wow, shocking, but when institutions do the same, they get away from it
Mom for non-liberty 😂😂😂😂 60years sounds good.
Crazy.
HORRIBLE….HORRIBLE….I BELIEVE IN GOD…AND I ALSO BELIEVE IN THE OPPOSITE FOR ROTTEN HORRIBLE PEOPLE…THEIR SOULS WILL NEVER NEVER……REST.
I never watched her but I have a question for YouTube. Why was this promoted on their site? Did advertisers know they were backing a child abuser? No one stepped in the first time she did something horrible? What is wrong with people?
oh my god hahahaha excellent sentence
So the world watched her torture children on YouTube and nothing was done until one escaped?
Will someone please provide an example with a consecutive prison term? Do not quite understand. Thank you.
Oh, Aha just a { HARSH } WHAT 🤨🤦🙄 ❓ O. K. so was
HANOI HOTEL, GUANTANAMO BAY, STALINGRAD,
THE PLANTATION,
KHMER ROUGE,
EDMUND PETTUS BRIDGE, G. F.
BATTERED CHILD SYNDROME, MUNCHAUSEN BY PROXY,
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME,
ANDERSONVILLE
THE TRAIL OF TEARS,
FORCED TAKE OVER ~
of this
MISBEGOTTEN NATIVE LAND,
the T . V. show
CELL BLOCK H &
the movie
CHILDREN of the CORN… smh😤🤬🥺
YEAH, yes this is exaggerated a bit much but just like saying a harsh whatever tactic, well if that’s the case, why didn’t she show, let her faithful followers witness what she was putting them INNOCENT CHILDREN, throw… 🤔 she was makin’ $$$ off them. 🤦
and even after her son escaped & went to the neighbors, who did ppl blame ❓ the other woman but them her kids … ludicrous.
anyone who has a child or children, him, her or they come first before`anything & anyone even yes, yourself, always !!!
keep y’all body parts off these children and find some other way to handle your 🐂~💩, issues you created… STOP !!! so happy that young man escaped and was able to bring this to light and be believed. and I hope and pray all those children get the help that they need to be be able to cope with the situation that have happened, happened that day, may be going through and may go through God bless you all. 🙏🙏🙏
For a sentencing hearing this was pretty uneventful. What was their deal? 1 year for each child? 4 years for each child? Whatever it turns out to be I hope she isn’t let out until she’s too old to have more kids and torture them, too. Her sentencing should be as public as her abuse videos were and her punishment should be plastered all over the place so everyone can see. I have a sad feeling they’ll both be out in a year or less. I hope I’m wrong
Her “apologies” were hollow. First words out of her mouth were blaming other people/institutions for causing her behavior. I would say she deserves the maximum sentence.
IF YOU CAN GO ON SOCIAL MEDIA, EVERRRRRRYDAY…THEN YOU SHOULD BE ALL THE MENTOR YOU NEED & 4SURE WANT & THE CHILDREN, SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE MOTIVATION…
girl, bye…
Social Media continues show the best of what COMMON SENSE IS…and this is: IT AIN’T SO “COMMON” 🙄
LORD, HELP 🗣️💪 HELP US, ALL PLS…TY AMEN.
Looks like Ruby Franke’s vlogs are now gonna be “Prison Diaries” instead of “Family Fun Time!
Such fake tears. The only reason why this person is sad is because she got caught. This women will not do well in prison and people in prison will not take lightly to this women’s actions.
I’m glad they plead guilty. Putting her kids through a trial would have been forcing them to relive their trauma and deal with all the stress and uncertainty.
Her decision was not for benefit of the children it was purely a selfish act to get less time in prison and also if kids testified even more abuse would probably have come to light
She doesn’t deserve the title “mom”!
Up to 60 years in the slammer for abusing her children.
Four 1 to 15 year terms. I’d be surprised if she actually serves 18 months.
For what she did 60 years not enough !!!!!!!!!!
Not every mother is a gem. I hear women’s prisons are worse on child abusers than men’s prisons. The finding out phase is about to begin.
I hope those are some very hard and traumatic years in prison.
Dus she het reslly 60 years, Other canels day 4 years. Could somebody explain?
Epsteins Island list should be getting 1000 years then right or something worse
Enjoy prison Ruby… 🖕🏻
Hey Ruby, inmates really do not like child abusers. Watch your back girl!
Death penalty. We have to take care of her for 60 years?
I am not a surgeon or doctor but my channel will teach you how to do home surgeries. I am actually a automotive technician so I have some knowledge
To Florida PDept. Killers will barricade to keep multiple victims from escaping family killings. The size of the victims I. E. Weights and stereotypes must have been considered in all serial killings
This woman is disgusting thank god she is locked up before she can hurt any more children or even worse.
Murderers get far less jail time- the American justice system is a pathetic disgrace
Typical LDS you can’t convince me otherwise.
Fake tears
🥳🥳🥳
This will not help any kids struggling under abusive parents. They always think they in the right no matter how crazy they get. This is literally just a scratch on the surface of parental child abuse.
Four consecutive 1-15 yr sentences?! So she could be serving only 4 years
Tour tearful apology is pathetic. Your poor children will endure a lifetime of emotional pain the rest of there lifes shame on you and the title of mother is something you don’t deserve…
She’s up for parole in 4 yrs.
60 years?
How many people did she murder?
What is tough about the story? It was tough and detrimental to the children. Why is the father not on trial, child endangerment???????? Those poor children.
60 years… wow
Good tired of the influencers the think they know better and they try teaching others when they are the worst
Fake TEARS!! You dont care…I can tell my the smile and smirk when you walked into the court room
Looks like a Biden hugging lefty to me..
That is, a rotten demon
She’s a registered republican christian zealot
60 years is pretty harsh. 10-15 years is a looong time too… And people can change
Unfortunately, Utah caps sentences at 30 years
She is lucky she got prison only. She should be given to the public and let us deal out a punishment. These ladies are the worst people ever.
She’ll like prison. Bagel bumpers.
There’s no Hate quite like Christian love.
I love how some parents, like her, feel punishing their kids by starving them isn’t cruel, but they locked their kids up in their rooms or chain them from leaving because if the truth came out, the parents will be in deep trouble. Well, now she’ll be locked away, and hopefully her children will be able to live a positive, productive life and never again have to live in fear from their parents.
“I took everything from you that was soft, safe and good”
Abuse is a mental choice woman, you chose to do this. You chose to take those things from them. You didn’t just go brain dead when YOU did those things. Whatever God you believe in, may he be merciful, because child abusers in prison don’t last long..
I’m so sick and tired of femails’ crocodile tears that, while they employ them to MOVE us men, those fake tears NOW MOVE ME in the opposite direction.
WHile they pull them out to elicit sympathy and weak feelings in men, I just get disgusted, and even harder. I am moved by genuine tears, but considering how easily wahmen can cry on a moment’s notice, real tears are few and far between.
If there is no LIQUID rolling down her cheeks, she’s not crying.
this is why you don’t put your life on the internet. not worth it.
Dark and light talk sounds like the sort of stuff Lois Vallow and Chad Daybell were talking about in their podcasts in relation to classifying people they knew including the kids. Must be a Morman thing with L5 being very good and D5 being very bad according to them.
Thats crazy ridiculous sentence
This is so full of inaccuracies. Please be more diligent in your research.
Shouldn’t her husband also get charged.
If she was an illegal aliens in NYC she would be on no cash bail.
And what about Dad?
She’s just sorry that she got caught. Thank god one of the kids escaped and went for help, or this would still be going on.
Yes, this is good. But why do ped*philes and child-tra**ickers get sentences like 12 – 24 months maximum!? Something’s wrong here.
Maybe her kids will write a sequel to Mommie Dearest.
I would be scared to death 💀/ if my name were Franke.
What a wonderful group of people
HILARIOUS!