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Ruby Franke cut off family under Jodi Hildebrandt’s spell before child abuse charges
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2:36Now PlayingWhen one of Ruby Franke’s six children turned up emaciated on a neighbor’s doorstep, with open sores and duct tape wrapped around their limbs, it shocked the millions who had watched her “8 Passengers” YouTube channel. NY Post Senior Features Writer Michael Kaplan shares this story.
The Mormon mom had delighted fans — and earned into six figures — by appearing to be a great mom with a posse of kids and a husband who loved her, until the neighbor in Santa Clara, Utah, called 911 and brought her influencing career to a catastrophic end.
Now friends are telling how before her dramatic fall, Franke, 41, buddied up with rigid self-help guru Jodi Hildebrandt, 54, and, according to one of Franke’s sisters, “the crap hit the fan.”
Both are charged with child abuse, but to those who knew her, Franke’s relationship with Hildebrandt had long since set off alarm bells.
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