The sadistic diaries kept by former YouTube ‘mommy blogger’ Ruby Franke have been revealed, detailing her torturing and humiliating her children.
The convicted child abuser, 42, wrote how one of her sons ‘refuses to do wall sits – he says he is done’, the day before saying he ‘is to stay outside. Sleep outside.’
Often including writings of the Devil or ‘possession,’ she added that another child, noted as ‘E’ in the heavily redacted document that cited the children by an initial, ‘refuses to work. Screams. Has hair shaved off.’
The horrifying diary entries were released Friday by the Washington County Attorney, a month after Franke was sentenced to 30 years in prison, that also included sickening images of the injuries she inflicted on her kids.
Ruby Franke, 42, a former ‘mommy’ YouTube blogger and convicted child abuser, has had her sadistic diary entries revealed
On July 10, 2023, she wrote that it was her son’s birthday, but ‘he doesn’t even know what month it is.’ Her diaries were filled with religious fanaticism and beliefs that her children were ‘possessed’ by the devil
In another entry, she wrote that poking her kids ‘is a strategy/ technique’, and (R) ‘seems to respond to poking, pouring cold water, towel whip’
The evidence release also included horrific images highlighting the extent of the abuse by Franke including duct tape wrapped around the arms and legs of a young boy
The popular YouTuber was arrested in August and charged with six counts of felony child abuse after one of her sons was discovered with open wounds and duct tape on his limbs
The Utah mom-of-six displayed religious fanaticism throughout the diary as she wrote often of punishing her kids because she believed they were ‘possessed’ by the devil.
In one instance, she said her young son was gripped by ‘Satanic chaos’, and said her children were suffering from ‘deviant behavior’.
Franke was convicted for the abuse of two of her six children, with the redacted diaries seeming to center on two kids, labelled as ‘E’ and ‘R’.
‘They are both furious their selfish sinful lifestyle is being intervened upon,’ Franke wrote in another diary entry. When they were saved from her home, the children said they were punished and tortured by their mother as a way to help them.
The mom wrote that R was ‘in and out of possession’, and that she told him ‘that he needs God. I invited him to fast and pray.’
Franke also wrote of her children ‘stealing water’ and depriving them of food, and said she ‘cut more (hair) off E’s head. We doused her w/ water in the dog wash.’
She wrote that her children ‘have been spawns of Satan’, and said when one of her kids tried to run away, she ‘screamed for another family, water, food, care, love.’
On July 10, 2023, she wrote: ‘It’s (R’s) birthday. He doesn’t even know what month it is.’
She claimed E and R were in ‘so much deviant behavior they won’t control their bodily functions’, adding: ‘They are both furious their selfish sinful lifestyle is being intervened upon.’
‘I told (R) he imitates a snake. He slithers, sneaks around looking for opportunities when no one is watching, then he scurries,’ she wrote on the birthday diary.
Despite inflicting horrific abuse on her kids, she wrote in one diary entry that modern children are too ‘comfortable’ and that ‘stripping a child’s world’ is ‘necessary’
Her writings often including unhinged religious fanaticism about demons and the Devil, and blamed her children’s incontinence on ‘Satanic choices’
She wrote that her children ‘have been spawns of Satan’, and said when one of her kids tried to run away, she ‘screamed for another family, water, food, care, love’
The convicted child abuser, 42, wrote how one of her sons ‘refuses to do wall sits – he says he is done’, the day before saying he ‘is to stay outside. Sleep outside’
Franke wrote of trying to speak to her son, ‘or should I say, his Demon’, about his behavior
The disgraced YouTube mommy blogger, 42, was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison in February for brutally abusing two of her own children in a ‘concentration camp-like setting’
The next day, Franke began by writing that 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 then detailed forcing her son to bake in the sun and prodding him with a ‘cactus poker’ whenever he tried to move into the shade.
After allowing him back out of the heat, she doused him with ‘old mop water’, writing: ‘It’s hot outside. ‘It feels good, doesn’t it?’ Yes.’
‘The devil doesn’t like when you get your subject from anger to truth,’ she added.
In another entry, she wrote that poking her kids ‘is a strategy/ technique’, and (R) ‘seems to respond to poking, pouring cold water, towel whip’
Franke’s business partner Jodi Hildebrandt was also referenced numerous times throughout the diary, including Franke feeling her kids stop being ‘possessed’ around her, then ‘act up’ once alone.
Hildebrandt was also sentenced to 30 years behind bars as she was arrested alongside Franke, and the diary’s references to the kids not being ‘possessed’ around her come despite Hildebrandt also taking part in the sadistic abuse.
Franke’s business partner Jodi Hildebrandt (pictured together) was also referenced numerous times throughout the diary, as she participated in the sadistic abuse of the children
Hildebrandt was also sentenced to 30 years behind bars as she was arrested alongside Franke
Images released highlight the extent of the abuse by Franke and show the two emaciated victims with infected cuts on their legs and duct tape around their arms and feet
When investigators found Franke’s house of horrors, one of her children told them that Hildebrandt had tied him up and used home remedies to treat the wounds he suffered.
In the images released in the tranche of evidence, photographs showed the children had painful infections.
Other images released highlight the extent of the abuse by Franke and show the two emaciated victims with infected cuts on their legs, duct tape around their arms and feet and scratches and bruises on their bodies.
Photos taken at the scene show the fragile bodies of the emaciated children who are covered with cuts, bruises and scars.
Images show the hands and feet of the young boy wrapped in duct tape as well as infected sores on his feet that are filled with blood and pus as a result of the restraints.
The nine-year-old girl was seen with scratches all over her arms and bruise marks on her ankle.
The children were subject to torture including being tied up with rope, forced to wear adult diapers and locked inside a tiny safe room.
They were regularly denied food, water, beds to sleep in and virtually all forms of entertainment.
Meanwhile, pictures show the kitchen and pantry was filled with food and Franke’s large office dedicated to making YouTube videos.
The two victims had scratches, cuts and bruises all over their bodies
One of the victims was found with large bruises on her ankle
While the children were starved, pictures show the kitchen and pantry was filled with food
Doorbell camera footage captures how her 12-year-old boy managed to escape the torture and alert a neighbor to their suffering, while another clip shows a cop discovering the nine-year-old girl crouched down in a closet.
Police also discovered a cramped safe room in the basement of the property that was locked from the outside, rope that would be used to tie up the children and adult diapers.
Footage shows the moment the 12-year-old boy manages to escape Franke’s house and goes to his neighbors house for help.
He is seen ringing the door and walking away as he thinks no one is home but he is called back by the neighbor.
‘I was wondering if you could do me two favors,’ he says. ‘Well, what are they?’ the neighbor responds.
‘Taking me to the nearest police station,’ the young boy replies before he is asked to take a seat and explain what’s happened.
He is then handed some water and a banana by the neighbors as they call the police and tell them he has duct tape around his feet and has sores all over his body.
‘Oh, you are such a good kid,’ the woman is heard telling him.
Disturbing photos depict the horrendous injuries of Ruby Franke’s abused children, including the moment officers found the kids in a closet at her Utah home
The children were subject to torture including being tied up with rope, forced to wear adult diapers and locked inside a tiny safe room.
A video taken from inside the ambulance shows the 12-year-old boy eating from a bag of nuts while being treated and a cop asks him who tied him up with rope
Bodycam footage shows the moments police discovered the young girl crouched down in a basement on her own inside Franke’s home.
‘Hi, I’m a police officer,’ one calmly says before the other asks if she is OK. The young girl is scared and reluctant to speak but the officer reassures her that everything will be okay.
In another clip, an EMT is seen attempting to engage with the victim but she tells her she is ‘just nervous.’
A video taken from inside the ambulance shows the 12-year-old boy eating from a bag of nuts while being treated and a cop asks him who tied him up with rope.
‘You’re not in trouble with me. We’re just trying to work out what’s going on,’ the officer said. ‘Our main focus right now is you.’
EMT staff are also seen cleaning the young boy’s cuts that are severely infected.