Nah, I dont believe for a second that a mother who sat back and watched her childen be tortured and abused has had a 180° complete turnaround and sees all the errors of her ways. She continues to be a manipulative narcissist

Ruby has been abusing her kids way before Jody.. this is such a suck up. They both need 30+ years

If the sentence is less than the 15 years that would be an outrage.

I call bs...This woman is just sorry she got caught...

Don’ t believe a word she’s saying. Franke and Hildebrandt are both monsters. Deserve to serve every bit of 60 years. Consecutively. With no chance of appeal or parole. Those children. Including the older ones will need extensive therapy for the rest of their life. Franke’s husband also needs to be thoroughly investigated. He lived under the same roof as Ruby. He had to have been aware of the emotional and physical abuse. The daily imprisonment of their children. The starvation. And their lack of friends or social life. He is not guilt free.

4 to 30 years- what does that even mean? It should be 30 years w/o parole, period. If the youngest boy hadn’t escaped, he and his sister probably would have been starved to death🙏🏻😢💔

Jodi still looks like she just does not understand why she is sitting in that chair. She's never said she was sorry for anything. She needs a long time out.

Eligible for parole in 4 years ? That’s crazy , they didn’t give the children a way out . They should throw away the keys for both of them .

She is still blaming others, just in a more underhanded way. Don't fall for it.

Why is Ruby Franke saying her thank you’s like she has received an Oscar ?

Ruby has a lot of nerve calling her SEVERELY abused children as “her little chicks” 🙄 YES they were as vulnerable as little chics… and you basically STOMPED on them!🤬😡

That wasn’t discipline, it was abuse! The children are going to carry the physical and mental scars for the rest of their lives.

Tears are a little to late, child abusers!!!

The fact that they were "teaching" other parents how to raise kids adds another level of crime IMO. People supported these women while they justified their abuse publicly.

And the boy that went for help is strong to get it to stop. Saving himself and his siblings and others

Oh my gosh.. she’s actually portraying herself as the victim. She’s acting like she’s giving a Mormon speech at church. As someone who grew up Mormon in Utah, that’s exactly how this sounds. She’s thanking everyone for most of her entire speech… like she’s won an award.

When she said : “this world is full of really good people”, she should have finished that with a : “and im not one of them”

Liar. She's not protecting anyone. She's didn't want it going to trial, so she didn't have to face all of the horrible detailed abuse she put these kids through. She's not being a martyr, she's still acting in a self serving way. I can too see her bull crap from here.

Your children are not healed and will require a lifetime of intervention 😢

The minimum should be way higher!! Children literally have to die to see any kind of real justice. It’s an outrage.

The husband Kevin knew what was going on,remember no Christmas for the two youngest that’s so cruel emotional abuse.

How in the world did these two psychos think that what they were doing was ok?

15 years is even a small thing for what she did to those children. You cant tell me beating,starving,tieing up your children was an accident or whatever...she should never be aloud to see her children again or be around children.

Ruby Franke was completely responsible for all her children . Even before this she in my opinion still carried out very horrible treatment of her children on her KZfaq channel which a lot of people raised concerns but nothing was done. In my opinion listening to her speech it’s still all about her it’s completely utter B/S.

Ruby is a self serving narcissist.

These monsters got off easy.

Ruby’s statement is like an Oscar’s acceptance speech!!….which is ironic considering her horrible acting. Her entire speech was an act.

I love how Ruby’s statement was mostly about her being a victim. What about your son who literally brought the neighbor man to tears because he was so visibly abused or your other children? Those are the true victims.

Ruby was treating her children badly before connections and Jodi, not giving her young daughter food, sending her son away. Can’t blame it all on Jodi

Theye only care about themselves!! Ruby delighted in abusing her kids long before Jodi was in her life!! She would smile when punishing them. So Disgusting!!

So what sentence would they have gotten if those children died in their care?? This is outrageous. What is wrong with these judges?

That little speech if so filled with “I, I, I, my, my, my, me, me, me”. And truly sorry person wouldn’t do that. Let her get maximum sentencing. It’s still less than she deserves

Ruby's job was to be a loving, caring, patient and understanding MOTHER. Instead she stands in front of the court diminishing her responsibility of the torture she put on her children. I hope these children can learn through therapy,they can trust, love and be loved and cared for without consequences. I hope they also learn, they can make mistakes like forgetting their lunches or playing tricks on each other without being punished.

This isn’t about you, it’s about your abuse of your little ducklings😢

You're right, it 100% sounds hollow and self-serving. Her statement never took any personal responsibility and reads as if she is a stranger who heard about the case on the street and is commenting on it. This Judge has her number!! Good for him!!

She was manipulating the judge with her glowing appraisal of the law enforcement officers . She is a very dangerous female .

She doesn't seem to be fully accepting of her responsibility for acts that she perpetrated upon her children. She did cause many injuries to her older children minus Jodie Hidlerbeand, she may have bought into Jodie's destructive ideas but she was already using severe abuse as a way of life to all of her children. She must serve her full sentence, recieve no income from her years on social media, she must not in any way profit from her abusive ideas & actions. These children may never be functional adults & may require many continual years of treatment bith physically & mentally. The video of her explaining that her kindergarten aged child not having a lunch was the childs fault showed a particularly evil attitude. I raised my children with care but expected them to grow into good adults. At kindergarten I would never expect a child to make their own nutritional lunch. I think she's a lot more to blame than she wants to accept.

Jodi looks shell shocked. Like she is stunned she is being held accountable after all these years (and years and years) of getting away with the most heinous crimes and no one standing up for her victims. She straight up cannot figure out what is going on.

BOTH of these monsters deserve the maximum sentence of 60 years! Anything less is a disgrace!!

She's blaming the other woman?!?She's the mother!!

I think 60 years is what it should be

She should never get out

She’s only sorry she got caught. Had she not been, those kids to date would still be suffering 😢

Ruby should get double what Jody gets. The mother who tortured and allowed someone else to do it as well.

I Hope the children are getting the love and care they will need. ❤❤ I so hope that Kevin dos'nt get custody.

Now she'll understand what her children went through. I raised 3 children on my own never did i harm humiliate i raised them with love and now they are beautiful loving adults.

Do you know what’s so sad about all of this? So many parents abuse their children and don’t get caught, it’s horrific to think that there’s a child out there suffering. I wish they could all get caught, and I also wish the children had safer families to raise them, but unfortunately, things can be very scary in foster care… almost worse. At least these children have other family members to raise them. I hope their father goes to therapy and does not blame the children for running away and seeking help, that would be disgusting. We all know toxic families do this type of thing. Let’s hope he has learned a great lesson!

These children were on their way to the same outcome as the 15 year- old boy,from Michigan, whose mother tortured him to his horrific death. These women got off too lightly by the option of as little as 1 year times 4, if the 1-15 yr sentences are on the lighter side. It is appalling that the judge accepted pleas for 1 yr possibilities due to the fake piousness of these disgusting women. Horrified is how I feel having worked for DV shelter as a Children's Counselor, advocating for, listening to and hearing the utter helplessness, and sometimes resignation that these innocent, in every way, victims endured and courageously managed to survive from their abusive ordeals. I'm tired of children suffering at the hands of people who "LOOOVED" THEM, AS THE PERPETRATORS SEEM TO ALWAYS SAY. It made me sick to hear these abusers use that term. People don't realize the lifetime of suffering the residual effect of abuse will have on the children. Even with therapy, they will be dealing with perception of people through the lenses they have been forced to use due to the distorted reality they were dealt by their perpetrators. No more innocence of childhood as they all deserved to have without abusive beliefs that were forced upon them. Shame, shame on these "light, indecisive" sentences. Four 15- year consecutive sentences would have been more appropriate because the children's lives will be permanently altered, even with long-term therapy, which they may not have access to due to finances or availability. SHAME ON OUR SO- CALLED "FAIR" JUSTICE SYSTEM. Perhaps their physical appearance had something to do with light sentences. After all, they don't visually "appear" dangerous or villainous. Poor kids and what they went through and will continue to suffer for a very long time. SICK OF IT!!

Lock her up !!!! Long time !!! I know some other U- Tube parents that need looked at !!! Way behind on these people

As a mom, I can’t even imagine hurting my kids like that. She did not have a sudden change of heart just because she went to jail. Anyone that can treat kids the way they did, needs serious therapy and isolation. She is evil and just trying to trick the system.

Where is the "I'm sorry children for what I did to you?"

They’re both sadists with different manipulation styles. Max for both of these heinous monster. No brownie points for faux contrition that is nothing more than a path to escape accountability.

I was in jail with both last month and what the attorney said about ruby being remorseful is BS! I spoke in depth to both and that’s not the persona you get from both….

They better investigate the father too..Ask the older what happened when he broke his his leg, mother and father never took him to hospital, her mom was yelling Ruby, but it was more important to go out to eat, with her husband then take her kids to hosipal.. That whole family needs to be investigated..And those kids should not be able to visit her in Prision..She might put something in there heads..

I can’t wait for the inmates to get a hold of these two.

Oh please 😮. These poor children will suffer mental and physical damage for the rest of their lives.

Oh yes, i believe that she's grateful for the people who arrested her. She thought that by saying all that, it would help with her sentence

Ruby Franke is manipulating everyone to feel sorry for her. Therefore, she can get out of prison early. Her family is helping her to plan a way out of this.

Healing her children, she is delusional, these children are damaged for life, for what these to monster did to these children, i don't buy her remorse, if her son hadn't escaped, they would have continued abusing those children, and the reality is the children could have died,. They are heinous monster's.

Why is she making out she is a victim, I hope she rots in prison 😡

I love how they cry while they are locked up and it's happening to them....I bet they didn't think one time while they were abusing those kids.

Narcissist speach at its fullest

They are both fully responsible for the abuse of the children.

Why is she playing the victim?? Her abuse towards her children started way before she met Jodi!! I cannot stand this woman. She should never be let out of jail.

getting busted has that effect on people

Why does Ruby’s speech sound like she won an Oscar?

She told the teacher that five-year-old is supposed to make her own lunch 😂

I have a feeling her children are beautiful souls and I just pray they get help ASAP. This is horrible.

" it is my preference to serve a prison sentence " ....... No Ruby its the courts preference you serve a sentence and hopefully a very,very long one!! This woman is more dangerous than we think, if something inside you as a mother or any human being doesnt tell you your ways and treatment to a living breathing being is wrong and abusive youve got something missing not just in your heart but your mind.

I just can’t believe a word coming from her, it just doesn’t feel like she really means it

Both of them need life in jail

Hopefully 15yrs so the kids have a good chance at a somewhat normal life.

Did she withdraw her vile accusation towards her 12yo son of violating his sisters? Didn’t think so. She’s pure evil.

Why didn’t the judge say the same thing to Ruby that he said to Jodi? She terrorized her own children. Tortured them. Parents are supposed to protect their children. Her philosophies are detached from reality, decency, and even common sense.

Ruby is a narcissistic character at her best 👌

Man, that’s a good defense attorney right there. To somehow spin this and make Ruby the victim of her FRIEND’S philosophies on parenting that she subscribed to is laughable! And to see Ruby’s downturned face while her attorney explains why she’s the victim was even more hilarious. She was playing the part, that’s all I’ll say.

Ruby used Jody as an excuse for her behavior. Jody simply became an excuse to give Ruby permission to escalate her pre-existing behaviors with her children. Watch videos of 8 passengers with her kids as props and the abuse the abuse that occurred! Ruby did NOTsuddenly get well & open her eyes once away from Jody. Her mental health issues were pre-existing! Jodi only gave Ruby “permission” to escalate the abuses vs being a victim of Jodi. In her testimony she never once acknowledged the abuses to her children but only discussed her manipulation from Jodi and her parents, her defense atty & possibly the judge are falling for it!! 🧐😡😵‍💫🙉

"There are two sides to every case..." I'll bite. What's the other side of treating a helpless child like an animal?

The fact that she walked in to court smiling when she's about to be sentenced for abusing her children...pure evil right there

It would have been amazing to hear either one of them say : “I was wrong and I am sorry for:”. And then list what she did, and how she will make amends for her actions. Instead, all we heard were more excuses for the irresponsible behavior they both chose daily, to put upon the innocent children they were blessed to be in charge of. Sad😢

Her husband should be charged with NEGLECT ! He's just as guilty as his wife !

Ruby should never be released.

Her jail buddies told her that she needed to show remorse to get LESS time she told her sister Julie that in a JAILCALL , she is a LIAR she needs to face NATURAL CONSEQUENCES for what she put her babies through.

Ruby wants to blame everyone else

THEY WERE IN IT TOGETHER, she is shifting the BLAME into the other women .

And when she’s “thanking” all of the cops and people that arrested her is just….puke.

Lock these people up and throw away the key. She's only remorseful because she got caught !

1-15? Get real.

boo hoo no feels sorry for either of you! You are quite lucky it’s only CA you are on trial for. Very easily could have been much worse

Her children will not be healed in 4 to 30 years. TRUST.

What can you say listening to this the last 4 years tosh this was going on long before she met Hilderbrant

What a master malignant manipulator thanking law enforcement officers, medical staff, etc. and not taking full responsibility for seriously abusing her children. She fully made choices and she is the only one to blame for the abuses she inflicted onto her children, no one else!!!! Where was the father!!?? She deserves 40 years in a harsh prison without any early release for any reason, as well as the co-defendant. I hope the children haven't been placed in their immediate family who let them down in the most horrific ways possible.

The whole story is deep and diabolical. Sadistic. Do you know why the oldest son was denied a bed to sleep in for a year? Because he woke up his younger brother early in the morning and told him to pack his bags because they were all going to Disney World. Then when they get to the family car? He laughs at him! And says how so sad we are not going! 😢 I found this out because Ruby was video taping her oldest son regaling the tale while laughing. He learned that behavior from his parents. Yes, the two youngest didnt get Christmas Presents on Christmas Day. I have zero comprehension of such corruption, let alone the physical torture. She acknowledges her behavior, which is hopeful. But I don't understand. How could she get so twisted even before meeting Hildebrandt. She and Kevin received tons of cash exploiting their children on You Tube. Without the children's consent. Openly abusing them in front of a camera for anyone to see. Cruel, inhumane, denying food, degrading them. This is way deeper than we know. Hildebrandt is motivated only by sadistic control cleverly hidden under a cloak of intelligence and manipulation. The Mormon church endorsed her. When Ruby hooked up with her? All I can say is thank you God for helping that young boy to be courageous! To seek help and save himself and his sister!! Hildebrandt, in my opinion, should not be let back into society. Furthermore, she is not safe around anyone! Even in prison! I firmly believe she ought to be in solitary confinement with access to a priest or a counselor for the rest of her life. She is 100% not repentant.

These two evil women should go to prison forever!

What about how she behaved before Jody

Ruby Frankie was HORRIBLE to her "little chicks" for YEARS even before Jodi came into the picture! This letter full of poor me BS and tears is pathetic. I'm not buying anything.

Jodi's body language tells a lot! She is acting like something terrible just happened to her, and she is clueless why, when the judge sad the boy who escaped probably couldn’t survive any longer she slightly shook her head and blinks like she just heard something so strange and not true. She still believes to be innocent and will sure do the same if let out. She is a danger to society.

But you didn’t actually apologize once to your kids. Seriously. Just a bunch of thank you’s like a typical narcissist.

Wow is she a stone cold sociopath. Completely unbelievable speech. I don’t know how the judge could even sit thru that.

36:01 Jodi’s Statement