SHE-DEVIL’S DIARY
Y’Tube ma’s kid abuse bared
The sadistic abuse that former Utah YouTube mommy blogger Ruby Franke meted out to two of her children — shaving their heads, starving them, dousing them with dirty mop water, making them stand outside barefoot in the desert heat for hours and forcing them to wear adult diapers — has been laid bare in her just-released diaries.
The children were gripped by “Satanic chaos,” Franke, 42, wrote in the partially redacted journals, adding she punished the kids, identified as “R” and “E,” because she believed they were “possessed” by the devil.
Franke, who once whipped her children with a belt, was convicted of child abuse and sentenced to 30 years in prison last month along with her friend and business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt.
Franke was arrested in August when her emaciated 12year-old son managed to escape from the house and ring a neighbor’s doorbell asking for help. He was covered in wounds, with duct tape around his wrists and ankles.
“If you can engage a weak minded soul in a physical activity of obedience you can begin to break the bond Satan made w/ the weak,” Franke wrote in one journal entry.
Franke referenced the “devil” or “possession” in her journals, once writing that one of her kids, “R,” “refuses to work. Screams. Has hair shaved off.”
“It is [the boy’s 12th] birthday and he doesn’t even know what month it is,” Franke wrote on July 10, 2023. “. . . I told [the boy] that he emulates a snake. He slithers . . . around looking for opportunities when no one is watching.” The next day, Franke began by writing it was a “Big day for evil.”
“(R) was told to stand in the sun w/ his sun hat/ He is defiant, ‘No.’ I tell him a couple more times. (R), or should his say his demon, stays in the shade.”
She wrote more than once about her children’s “deviant” behavior and that they were “spawns of Satan.”