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'''Ruby Franke''' (born 1981 or 1982)<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66651506 |title=Ruby Franke: '8 Passengers' parenting mum arrested on child abuse suspicion |publisher=BBC News |date=2023-09-01 }}</ref><ref name=NYT>{{Cite news |last=Tumin |first=Remy |date=2023-09-01 |title=Host of YouTube Parenting Channel Is Charged With Child Abuse |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/ruby-franke-child-abuse-arrest.html |access-date=2023-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902191719/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/ruby-franke-child-abuse-arrest.html |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> is a family ] who ran a ] channel called ''8 Passengers'' documenting her Mormon family life from 2015 to 2023. In August 2023, she was arrested and charged with six counts of ]. '''Ruby Franke''' (born 1981 or 1982)<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66651506 |title=Ruby Franke: '8 Passengers' parenting mum arrested on child abuse suspicion |publisher=BBC News |date=2023-09-01 }}</ref><ref name=NYT>{{Cite news |last=Tumin |first=Remy |date=2023-09-01 |title=Host of YouTube Parenting Channel Is Charged With Child Abuse |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/ruby-franke-child-abuse-arrest.html |access-date=2023-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902191719/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/01/us/ruby-franke-child-abuse-arrest.html |archive-date=September 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> is a family ] who ran the now defunct ] channel '''''8 Passengers''''', which documented her family life from 2015 to 2021. The channel was later removed from the platform in early 2023.
On August 30, 2023, she was arrested and charged with six counts of ].


== Career == == Career ==

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Family vlogger who ran a YouTube channel

Ruby Franke (born 1981 or 1982) is a family vlogger who ran the now defunct YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented her family life from 2015 to 2021. The channel was later removed from the platform in early 2023.

On August 30, 2023, she was arrested and charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse.

Career

Beginning in early 2015, Franke ran a YouTube channel called 8 Passengers featuring her family life with her husband, Kevin, and six children. The channel had almost 2.5 million subscribers as of June 2020. She originally posted five days a week at 6:00 AM. Beginning in 2020, when one of Franke's sons said that he had been banned from his bedroom and made to sleep on a bean bag for seven months, viewers became concerned about Franke's disciplinary methods, which also included withholding food, threatening to behead a stuffed toy, and telling two children that Santa Claus would not be bringing them anything for Christmas that year because they were too "numb" to respond to other punishments. A petition was launched reporting perceived child abuse and neglect. Ruby and Kevin Franke posted in defense of the discipline, saying the incidents had been taken out of context. 8 Passengers declined in popularity in 2021, and was deactivated in 2023.

In the 2020s, Franke began working as a mental health coach at ConneXions, a company run by Jodi Nan Hildebrandt, a counselor; they have also appeared in videos together and partnered in offering parenting classes.

Arrest

On August 30, 2023, Franke and Hildebrandt were arrested in Ivins, Utah, and on September 1 both were charged on six counts of aggravated child abuse. According to a statement from the Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department, Franke's 12-year-old son, who appeared emaciated and had "open wounds and duct tape around the extremities", had climbed through a window of Hildebrandt's house and asked at a neighboring house for food and water. Emergency services found Franke's 10-year-old daughter in the house, also malnourished; both children were taken to a hospital, where the boy was treated for severe malnourishment and "deep lacerations from being tied up with rope". A search of the house found evidence "consistent with the markings" on the 12-year-old, and the Utah Division of Child and Family Services took the boy and girl and two more of Franke's children into care.

Personal life

The Franke's are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Their oldest daughter has stated that she has long disapproved of her mother's parenting strategies. Franke has three sisters who are also parenting influencers.

References

  1. ^ "Ruby Franke: '8 Passengers' parenting mum arrested on child abuse suspicion". BBC News. September 1, 2023.
  2. ^ Tumin, Remy (September 1, 2023). "Host of YouTube Parenting Channel Is Charged With Child Abuse". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 2, 2023. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  3. ^ Christensen, Megan Marsden (January 16, 2016). "Springville mother documents family life on popular YouTube channel". KSL.com. Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  4. ^ Ables, Kelsey; Bellware, Kim (September 1, 2023). "What to know about Ruby Franke, parenting YouTuber charged with child abuse". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  5. ^ Hanson, Amy Beth (September 1, 2023). "Parenting advice YouTuber Ruby Franke charged with aggravated child abuse of 2 of her 6 children". Associated Press. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  6. ^ Dodgson, Lindsay (June 25, 2020). "These YouTuber parents are speaking out after drama channels and TikTokers accused them of being abusive to their children and had child protective services visit their house". Business Insider. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  7. ^ Walrath-Holdridge, Mary (September 1, 2023). "Who is Ruby Franke? 8 Passengers family vlogger arrested on child abuse charges". USA Today. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
  8. ^ Sole, Elise (September 1, 2023). "YouTuber mom Ruby Franke arrested and charged in child abuse investigation". Today.com. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
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