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Kevin Franke, separated husband of dishonor UTAH breeding blogger And the abuser of condemned children Ruby Franke, says he has “regretted” how he handled his wife’s decline in chaos.
Ruby Franke, a six -year -old mother, and Jodi Hildebrandt, a mother of two 55 -year -old children, led a joint YouTube channel of paternity and lifestyle Called Connexions Classrooms before being arrested and declared themselves guilty of four of six aggravated childhood abuse of second degree in a St. George Court Chamber in December 2023.
“The conclusion is: I was choosing to trust a professional mental health counselor and my wife, and gave a terrible advice. And I regret it. And I wish I had not done those things,” said Kevin Franke “Good morning America” In an interview that was broadcast on Tuesday morning.
Ruby and Hildebrandt had been associated to create a vlog breeding and lifestyle set, or video blog, called Connexions classrooms that sold advice sessions, packages and retreats ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.
The blogger Ruby Franke is imprisoned in Utah for child abuse. (Instagram/ Moms_of_truth)
“I don’t think it’s stopped loving her,” Kevin said when he was asked if he still loves Ruby. “Does that mean that I want to let her return to my life? Stop returning to the life of my children? Absolutely not.”
Before Connexions classrooms, Franke directed her own parenting vlog on social networks for years called 8passengers, representing herself, her husband and her six children. Its social media pages from 8 pins generated the majority of family income when it gained popularity. Ruby’s videos shared an intimate vision of his family’s seemingly perfect life and had more than 2.5 million subscribers rather than their fall.
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However, popularity began to decrease after his eldest son admitted indifferently in one of the videos he published in his account that he had been sleeping in a bean bag for seven months as punishment for his behavior. Hildebrandt entered Ruby’s life after 8 passengers crumbled, and the two friends decided to create Connexions classrooms.
In the episode of a Connexions classroom, Ruby tells his viewers: “If your child comes to you in flames, do not give them palmaditas in the head and tells you: ‘It is fine, I will help you.’ No, the vences and the vences and the vences and the vences and the venances and The pateas, and you hit them with a bar.
Kevin Franke tells the police in an August 2023 interview that he has not seen his children in more than a year after the police arrested his wife, Ruby Franke, and his commercial partner, Jodi Hildebrandt. (Washington County Prosecutor’s Office)
Kevin and his eldest son, Chad Franke, are talking for the first time since Ruby was sentenced and before the premiere of a new documentary about Ruby’s crimes called “Devil in the family: Ruby Franke’s fall.”
The documentary includes Ruby clips in his family in recently unearthed video clips that did not reach their social media profiles.
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Utah authorities found two malnourished and emaciated children in a house in Utah before arresting Franke and Hildebrandt. (Instagram/ Moms_of_truth)
In a clip, Ruby orders Chad to “falsify being happy.”
“I think that once the companies began to come to us, offering great money for the scripts,” things began to change, said Chad “Gma”, and added later that his mother’s social networks’s work was A “chaotic experience.”
“Many shouts, many clicks, many waiting time in the corner,” he recalled.
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In previous videos without Hildebrandt, Franke complains that the school of his children uses Tiktok to teach dances, the dangers of the pijamadas, the bullying and other issues. Some of her videos include her husband, including a “live couples workshop” on finance management. (YouTube/ Connexions)
Utah authorities finally arrested Ruby and Hildebrandt in August 2023 for abusing Franke’s two younger children, a 9 -year -old girl and a 12 -year -old boy, after the efforts of Ruby’s eldest daughter, Shari Franke , to obtain the family department and children’s services to take measures against your mother. Part of the abuse occurred in the multimillionaire house of Hildebrandt in Ivins, Utah.
The accusations against Franke and Hildebrandt only came to light after Franke’s son fled from Hildebrandt Ivins’ house and ran to a neighbor, who called 911 after seeing the malnourished child with adhesive tape on his wrists and ankles.
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Most families in the area knew that Franke had a YouTube channel called 8passengers, his neighbor told Fox News Digital. When another Vlog began called “Moms of Truth”/ Connexions on Facebook with Hildebrandt “, some” neighbors became “very worried” with the content, said the neighbor. (Mom of truth/ Instagram)
“It was so extravagant to me that it had to have been manufactured,” Kevin Franke told “GMA” when asked about his initial reaction to his wife’s arrest.
Franke and Hildebrandt were both sentenced to comply with four consecutive terms between a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of 60 years in prison.
Now, Kevin warns about the dangers of social networks after life once deprived of his family was put under a microscope.
Ruby Franke and his commercial partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, were sentenced to prison in Utah for child abuse. (Instagram/ Moms_of_truth)
“There is a real danger when you place yourself or your family, your children, to public social networks,” he told “GMA.”
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In dozens of YouTube videos and publications on social networks, Franke and Hildebrandt trained parents in quiet voices of a living room sofa on how to raise their children in “truth.” In a video posted just before his arrests, Hildebrandt said that pain can be something good for children of a certain age.
The case has caused discussions about how breeding and lifestyle blogs often present only one splinter of the reality of a person or family, as well as the rights of children about their own privacy if their parents are a social media star .
