Shari Franke, the daughter of jailed vlogger Ruby Franke, details the years of emotional and physical abuse she and her siblings suffered, even while their family's YouTube channel, '8 Passengers,' documented their lives.
The daughter of a once-popular family vlogger now in prison for child abuse is providing new insight into her mother’s extreme religious beliefs and harsh, excessive discipline — and how it continued for years even as cameras were rolling. Shari Franke, 21, described the emotional and physical abuse she and her five younger siblings endured for years by Ruby Franke, even as the Utah family known as “8 Passengers” documented their lives to millions of YouTube followers.
Her memoir, “The House of My Mother,” was released on Tuesday after the Frankes’ youngest son sought help from a neighbor of Hildebrandt’s home in Ivins. The 12-year-old boy was malnourished with open wounds and duct tape on his wrists and ankles. Authorities said they found his younger sister, also suffering from malnutrition, in a closet at Hildebrandt’s home. Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt were sentenced to four counts of aggravated child abuse (two additional counts were dropped as part of their plea agreements) and were each given 12 years to serve. Ruby Franke’s views on parenting and discipline became “increasingly alarming,” Shari Franke said after her mom partnered in 2022 with Hildebrandt, 57, a counselor. The women launched their own YouTube channel, ConneXions, after “8 Passengers” was shut down due to widespread backlash against the Frankes’ authoritarian parenting style. Their followers sounded the alarm after the Frankes’ eldest son, Chad, revealed in an “8 Passengers” video that he had been forced to sleep on a bean bag chair in the family’s basement for seven months, and Ruby said she had withheld food from her children as punishment. Shari moved out of the house when she began attending BYU in the fall of 2021. She said she became increasingly worried about the four younger children’s welfare after her father, Kevin Franke, agreed to move out at Hildebrandt’s urging, and not communicate with his wife or children — including Shari — for a year. Her mother pulled the children out of school and refused to allow her to communicate with them, Shari said
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