After YouTuber Ruby Franke form a friendship with Jody HildebrandThe duo was arrested for violence against children – but where are they now?
Hildebrand, who was the focus of an episode of an investigation into the opening of February 2025. The curious case The series, started as a Utah -based a therapist. Later, she founded Connexions, which is a program that offers marriage, parenting and life consultations – usually to fellow Mormons.
Before the trails passed, Ruby I reached the YouTube Stardom In 2015, when she launched her own channel with an already destroyed spouse Kevin FrankeS The former couple and their six children -Cari, Chad, Abbey, Julie, Russell and Eva-White in the center of the everyday deposits that show Ruby’s days as a mother in the home.
Ruby and Hildebrand became friends in 2019 after connecting through their church. From there, Ruby and Kevin began to visit relationships, but later their marriage fell apart. Ruby and Hildebrand began to live with Ruby’s children until they were arrested.
Ruby Franke rose to glory as he documented her family’s daily life on her YouTube channel in 2015, some of them are controversial. After confronting the reverse reaction to some of his parental elections, Ruby stopped his “8 Passengers” channel and continued to launch ties with mentor Jody Hildebrant in 2022. In August 2023, Franke was arrested at (…)
In 2023 Ruby and Hildebrand were arrested and charged with six charges of crime for violence against children. The arrest came after Ruby’s youngest son, who was 12 years old at the time, fled from Hildebrand’s home and asked for help from a neighbor.
Ruby pleaded guilty to four allegations of violence against children in December 2023 and acknowledged that he was tormenting her children. As part of the legal basis agreement, she agreed to serve prison and agreed that her sentences would be executed consistently. She also agreed to testify against Hildebrand, who pleaded guilty.
Continue to scroll to break up Ruby and Hildebrand’s friendship – including revelations about their relationship by an investigation into discoveries The curious case Series:
2019
Four years after Ruby set up her channel 8 Passengers on YouTube, she contacted Hildebrand through their church. The host of the podcast “hidden crime” Lauren Matthias Discovered in the special special February 2025 that Ruby and Kevin “were looking for a therapist for their biggest son” when Hildebrand was recommended to them.
The real series of crimes included an audio of Kevin’s voice, who said: “Jody always had a greater interest in communicating with parents more than with the actual patient. Her theory was that if you wanted to help your child, you must first help yourself. “
2020
Ruby He fell under fire in 2020 When her followers worried about her parenting. They created an online petition asking for childcare services to investigate Franke’s family because of YouTube videos where they discussed that they were taking their biggest son to Chad for months and punishment and They refused to bring their lunch to the then 6-year-old daughter to school after she forgot to pack it alone.
Insider reported that the division of Utah’s children’s and family services visited Franke’s residence and interviewed the children for two hours. The case was dropped due to lack of evidence of the allegations.
“What people do not understand is that we give our children our children in everything,” Ruby told the exit at that time. “We teach our children to self -commit themselves.”
Ruby Franke, who chronicles her daily adventures of her big breeding on their Channel 8 Passengers, has been arrested. The personality of YouTube, 41 -year -old, was booked on Wednesday, August 30, in Springville, Utah, two aggravated violence against children. According to the website of the Sheriff Department of Washington County, it is currently in the arrest of the police. Franke (…)
2021
As Ruby moved from Hildebrand’s patient to her friend, she transferred her YouTube channel to the Mothers of Truth account. Hildebrand eventually moved to Ruby and Kevin’s home, in which he told Special Investigation of Discovery.
“The moment he appeared in my house, the most sophisticated nonsense began to happen. The lights turn on and turn off, “Kevin recalled in an audio clip. “It was weird and I hated it. Ruby started checking her at night. It started every four hours until every hour and at one point Ruby started sleeping there. That was. They started sleeping in the same bed. “
Another host of a podcast speculates Ruby and Hildebrand’s relationship, saying: “There was financial attraction and emotional attraction and psychological attraction. Was Jody literally struggling with his own demons and preached against sexual disorders and yet constantly tortured as a closed lesbian? Speculates there, but all these points are connected. “
Ruby and Hildebrand have not turned publicly and claims about their personal life. Ruby’s daughter Shari talks about the “strange relationship” between her mother and Hildebrand after releasing her memoir, My mother’s house: searching for daughter For freedom.
“I have never seen anything specific about it,” she told Today Show in January 2025 Shari wrote in her memoir that she had found messages on Ruby’s laptop after her arrest, “confirmed to me the truth about the nature of her relationship with Jody and how she spilled into the physical.”
2022
Ruby and Kevin split into the proposal of Hildebrand as a way to save their marriage. As a result, Kevin was told to get out of his home and lose communication with his wife and children. Ruby joined Hildebrandt’s podcast “Connexions”, where they shared their exceptional Strict parental philosophies.
Later that year, Ruby and Hildebrand moved their four youngest children 300 miles to Utah. Ruby and Hildebrand began to punish their two youngest children while living in Hildebrand’s home. According to Discovery’s documentary, weeks before their arrest, Ruby and Hildebrand are shopping remote ranch lands in Arizona.
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2023
The then 12-year-old son of Ruby fled the Hildebrand’s residence in August 2023 and received a neighbor to call the police for his burned condition. Ruby and Hildebrand were arrested and charged with six charges of aggravated violence against children.
The curious series of cases included a recording of Ruby’s phone call from prison two days after her arrest, in which she said: “Poor Jody. She puts her neck on the line for people and then they get angry at her. It’s just awful. “
2023
And Ruby and Hildebrand pleaded guilty to four charges of aggravated abuse of children and were sentenced between 4 and 60 years in prison. They will not serve for over 30 years because of a Jute law related to consistent sentences.
“I took everything that was soft, safe and good,” Ruby said before her sentence. “I took your mother from you. How terrifying this must have been for you. I will never stop crying to injure your gentle souls. You are so valuable to me. I’m sorry. “
2024
In a recording of Ruby’s call from prison months after her arrest, she changed her Melody about Hildebrand, saying: “This is the most sophisticated and most wonderful intervention. This put everyone where they were supposed to be. That separated me from Jody, so I don’t hear it. I think I don’t hear her clear her many things about me. “
The Hildebrand Prison audio was also recorded, where she defended herself and said that Ruby’s son “did this to herself” when discussing his extensive injuries.
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2024
YouTube banned Ruby and Hildebrandt and delete channels associated with their names. The Hildebrandt consultation license was frozen after their arrest.
Ruby Kevin’s alienated husband seeks custody of her children. He subsequently filed a lawsuit against Hildebrand to deliberately apply emotional distress, negligently applying emotional distress and negligence for him and his children.
“It’s a lot to do every day, the questions what, if, what could be done, what should happen, what I had to do, what others should do, it is chasing you,” Kevin told KSL on Utah in Utah After submitting a divorce petition.
2025
Ruby is currently serving a sentence of 4 to 30 years in the state correctional facility in Utah in Salt Lake City. She will not appear before the Council on the pardon and conditional release from the Utah – which determines the exact duration of her sentence – until December 2026. The same applies to Hildebrand, which also serves her sentence from 4 to 30 years in the state correctional facility on Utah S
