Utah mommy blogger Ruby Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, who made a living creating lifestyle and parenting videos on a YouTube channel called ConneXions Classroom, have both been charged with six counts of child abuse in the alleged abuse of two children.
“I just had a 12-year-old boy show up here at my front door asking for help, and he said he just came from a neighbor’s house, and we know there’s been problems at this neighbor’s house,” a man says in a 911 call obtained by Fox News Digital. “He’s emaciated. He’s got tape around his legs. He’s hungry, and he’s thirsty.
“He asked us to call the police. So he’s very afraid,” the man added, later naming Jodi Hildebrandt as the neighbor in question. The boy later tells him that even though he came from Hildebrandt’s house, his mother is Ruby Franke and he does not live in the area.
One of Franke’s six children apparently escaped Hildebrandt’s home in Ivins through a window and asked a neighbor for help, court documents show. The neighbor saw “duct tape” wrapped around the child’s “ankles and wrists” and contacted law enforcement, according to a probable cause affidavit from the Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department.
“He rang my doorbell and asked me to call the police,” the man says. “I don’t think he needs an ambulance. I’ll let the cops decide that, but his ankles are taped up, and he won’t tell us why. … There’s sores around him.”
Kevin, Franke’s husband, allegedly moved out of their home in mid-2022.
Ruby and Jodi spent a lot of time together, and Ruby’s kids were living at Jodi’s home during their arrest.
Franke, in 2022, joined a new (since deleted) YouTube channel called ConneXions with Jodi Nan Hildebrandt.
The pair sparked controversy with their videos, including one in which they made claims about what loving children unconditionally means.
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