'I will not feed a demon': YouTuber Ruby Franke's child abuse case rooted in religious extremism
The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah.
The 12-year-old son of Ruby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed advice to millions via a popular YouTube channel, had escaped through a window and approached several nearby homes until someone answered the door, according to documents released Friday by the Washington County Attorney’s office.
Crime scene photos, body camera video and interrogation tapes were released a month after Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, a mental health counselor, were each sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. A police investigation determined religious extremism motivated the women to inflict horrific abuse on Franke’s children, Washington County Attorney Eric Clarke announced Friday.
“The women appeared to fully believe that the abuse they inflicted was necessary to teach the children how to properly repent for imagined ‘sins’ and to cast the evil spirits out of their bodies,” Clarke said.
But they are an outlier... if they weren't people wouldn't be so horrified.
We're horrified because it's horrible, not because it's unusual. Not the first time I've been horrified today, unfortunately.
Roflmao pointing out an outlier is an outlier gets you downvoted on Lemmy. We don’t take kindly to people who defend religious types ‘round here.