The YouTuber and her business partner were charged with six felony counts of aggravated child abuse after a young boy escaped and claimed he was a victim of abuse.
The chilling 911 call that led to the arrest of Ruby Franke and her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, on charges of aggravated child abuse has been released.Saturday, Franke’s neighbor phoned police at 10:50 p.m. on Aug. 30 after a frightened boy arrived on his doorstep in Santa Clara, Utah.
“I just had a 12-year-old boy show up here at my front door asking for help, and he said he just came from a neighbor’s house, and we know there’s been problems at this neighbor’s house,” the man told an emergency dispatcher. “He’s emaciated. He’s got tape around his legs. He’s hungry, and he’s thirsty,” the concerned man said, later adding that the boy “asked us to call the police” and that the child was “very afraid.”
In the Aug. 30 call, the neighbor described the boy as “emaciated” and “very afraid” with “tape around his legs.”“I don’t think he needs an ambulance. I’ll let the cops decide that, but his ankles are taped up, and he won’t tell us why. … There’s sores around him.” “This kid has obviously been . . . he’s been detained. He’s obviously covered in wounds,” the neighbor said after choking up in tears.YouTuber Ruby Franke has been arrested on charges of aggravated child abuse.Ruby Franke was a “momfluencer” who had one of YouTube’s biggest channels, “8 Passengers,” which documented her and her husband, Kevin, and their six kids., on two counts of aggravated child abuse and could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
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