Ruby Franke pleads guilty to child abuse charges after two children hospitalized YouTube: 8 PassengersFamily vlogger Ruby Franke has pleaded guilty to four charges of felony child abuse after she was arrested earlier this year when two of her children were hospitalized. Ruby Franke is best known for her now-defunct YouTube channel \u20188 Passengers,\u2019 where she and her husband, Kevin Franke, vlogged about their daily lives with their six children. However, the Frankes came under scrutiny in 2020 when some viewers took issue with the punishments they were doling out to their children \u2014 one of them being \u201ctaking away\u201d their son\u2019s bedroom for pranking his little brother, leaving him to sleep on a beanbag for nearly six months. In August 2023, Ruby Franke was arrested on suspicion of aggravated child abuse, along with Jodi Hildebrandt, founder of the parent counseling service ConneXions. The arrest took place after two of Franke\u2019s children, her 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter, were found \u201cmalnourished and with open wounds, with duct tape covering their extremities.\u201d Ruby Fanke pleads guilty to 4 felony counts of second-degree aggravated child abuse On December 18, 2023, Ruby Franke pleaded guilty to four felony counts of second-degree aggravated child abuse. Franke was initially charged with six counts in September, but two of these charges were dropped due to a plea deal. Standing in court, CBS reports that Franke responded to the fourth count by pleading, \u201cWith my deepest regret and sorrow for my family and my children, guilty.\u201d A statement from Franke\u2019s lawyers claims that Jodi Hildebrandt \u201csystematically isolated Ruby Franke from her extended family, older children, and her husband, Kevin Franke.\u201d Kevin Franke has reportedly filed for divorce from wife Ruby following the incident. Their four youngest children were also placed into state custody. Ruby Franke is scheduled for sentencing on February 20 \u2014 a decision left up to a judge, but one that doesn\u2019t \u201crule out jail time,\u201d as reportedly acknowledged by her attorney, LaMar Winward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ruby Franke pleads guilty to child abuse charges after two children hospitalized YouTube: 8 PassengersFamily vlogger Ruby Franke has pleaded guilty to four charges of felony child abuse after she was arrested earlier this year when two of her children were hospitalized. Ruby Franke is best known for her now-defunct YouTube channel \u20188 Passengers,\u2019 where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}