Ruby Franke’s Handwritten Journal Reveals Severity of Youngster Abuse: ‘Massive Day for Evil’

The previous YouTube star’s diary entries had been among the many mountain of proof that was launched to the general public on Friday within the little one abuse case towards Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt, who had been each sentenced to as much as 60 years in jail earlier this 12 months in Utah.

As proven in a closely redacted 60-page doc, obtained by Salt Lake Metropolis native CBS affiliate, KUTV 2, Franke stored a handwritten journal, wherein she documented — through a timeline format — her kids’s conduct, and the way she and Hildebrant responded.

The diary entries — which had been dated from Could till August 2023 — primarily targeted on two of Franke’s youthful kids: her 12-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter, who had been known as “R” and “E,” respectively, within the redacted entries. She constantly wrote about each of her kids being possessed by the satan, particularly her son, whom she mentioned “wants God” and was “in an out of possession.”

In an entry dated June 30, 2023, she mentioned R “refuses to do wall sits. He says he’s carried out.” The next day, Franke wrote that R s was “to remain exterior” and sleep exterior.”

On the day earlier than her son’s twelfth birthday, she mentioned, “R turns 12 tomorrow. I by no means envisioned him being 12 & nonetheless pooping/peeing himself. Satanic decisions lead one to change into destitute — even in probably the most influential houses.”

Franke continued with one other entry on R’s birthday, claiming he “does not even know what month it’s,” earlier than writing that her son and daughter “have been in a lot deviant conduct, they will not management their bodily features.”

“I informed R that he wants God. I invited him to quick & pray. R is out and in of possession,” she later added.

In a extra disturbing entry the subsequent day, Franke started her entry by noting that it was a “large day for evil.”

“R was informed to face within the solar w/his solar hat,” she mentioned. “He’s defiant. … R, or I ought to say his demon, stays within the shade. I push R into the solar. R comes again. I come again with a cactus poker. Once I poke his again to get within the solar R does not even flinch. I poke him on the neck. He’s in a trance & does not seem to really feel something. Jodi faucets him on the cheeks to wake him up. The satan does not like once you get your topic to comply with reality.”

In the identical entry, Franke wrote that her R was pushed within the pool, and he or she “put my hand tightly over his nostril & mouth.”

The subsequent day, she mentioned she “lower extra off [E’s] head. We doused her w/ water within the canine wash,” including that her daughter “mentioned she needed to run away.”

“Jodi informed E she has no concept what’s ready for her,” she wrote.

On July 15, 2023, Franke mentioned she found that R ran away in the midst of the night time. She wrote that she discovered him “strolling on the left facet of the street.”

She added later that day that “to be able to preserve my son, I might want to put him below sedation.”

“The demon continues to be right here and I purposefully put R again right into a slumber. Hybernate. To observe R go into the aweful state of compliance, understanding the demon he harbors in his coronary heart is so so sick like stitching up a affected person you understand you did not get all of the most cancers out.”

Franke went on to say that there was a “soul-killing an infection in my little one.”

The final entry was dated August 27. Franke’s 12-year-old son escaped, and went to a neighbor for assistance on August 30.

In the meantime, along with Franke’s handwritten journal, prosecutors additionally launched recorded telephone calls from Franke and Hildebrandt’s throughout their time in Washington County Jail.

Just like the journal entries, the jail telephone calls revealed disturbing particulars of the kid abuse, and Franke’s claims that her kids had been “evil.”

“Adults have a very onerous time understanding that kids might be stuffed with evil and what that takes to struggle it,” she defined in a single recording. “And so I don’t know another adults who’re going to see the reality.”

“I’m girl,” she mentioned in a one other name. “I do not do naughty issues.”

Hildebrandt, in the meantime, appeared bowled over that they had been being accused of abusing the kids.

“So now, it’s abusive to make a child sleep on the ground,” she informed an unidentified particular person on a name. “It is ridiculous. You possibly can’t even increase your youngsters anymore.”

In one other recording, Franke mentioned the final time she spoke to Hildebrandt was the day she was arrested.

Franke was sentenced to as much as 60 years in jail for aggravated little one abuse final month, after each she and Hildebrandt pleaded responsible to 4 counts of kid abuse in December.

“I’m humbled and prepared to serve a jail sentence for so long as I would like,” the previous 8 Passengers influencer informed the decide. “I’m dedicated to unlearning my poisonous conduct.”

She additionally expressed remorse for “twisting God’s phrases and distorting His doctrine.” Franke acquired the utmost sentence below Utah state tips.

Hildebrandt obtained the identical sentence because the decide reprimanded her for terrorizing kids.

“I sincerely liked these kids,” Hildebrandt informed the decide. “One of many causes I did not go to trial is I didn’t need them to relive this.”