Ruby Franke’s son breaks silence on jailed YouTube mom, reads diaries from before arrest: 'I was brainwashed'

The lad of convicted 8Passengers YouTube blogger Ruby Franke is speaking retired astir 2 years aft his parent was sentenced to up to six decades successful situation for aggravated kid abuse. 

Chad Franke, 20, is sharing his broadside of the communicative successful a bid of TikTok videos by speechmaking diary entries from 2023, 1 twelvemonth earlier his parent was handed down her lengthy situation condemnation successful a Utah courtroom, according to People. 

"Hi, my sanction is Chad, and I utilized to beryllium precise brainwashed," helium said successful the archetypal video. "And no, I’m not kidding. You tin look maine up." 

Throughout the video, Chad tin beryllium heard explaining that helium has received countless requests from his TikTok followers to "write a publication connected my story," but conceded that helium feels helium is not a "very bully writer" and does not privation a third-party telling his broadside of things.

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The demise of Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt ended with the pals and concern partners successful prison. (Instagram/@moms_of_truth)

"Then I remembered I benignant of wrote my ain communicative myself," Chad said, pointing to a diary successful which helium wrote each time during that play of his life. 

"And to amusement you guys however existent it was for each azygous time of the year, I volition spell backmost to 2023, 2 years ago, and work each azygous diary introduction that I wrote," helium added. 

In the 2nd video installment, Chad went connected to work an introduction dated Jan. 22, 2023, detailing however helium visited religion with his roommates earlier playing Mario Kart, and aboriginal cooking "funeral potatoes."

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Chad Franke discusses his narration with his mother, Ruby Franke, successful Hulu's "The Devil successful the Family" documentary series. (Hulu)

"And past I called Mom," Chad said. 

"We talked for 2 hours astir removing lust. It's a small much analyzable and hard than I thought," helium read, adding that helium was moving arsenic a lifeguard astatine the time. 

"Being astatine the excavation has galore opportunities to amusement God I volition not lust anymore," helium continued, earlier listing a bid of goals helium wanted to execute wrong the upcoming week, including, "Scripture study, scripture notes, traveling to work, finishing and starting a concern book, decorativeness a 12-hour Python coding course, and support connected cooking."

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Ruby Franke pleaded blameworthy to 4 of six counts of aggravated kid abuse. (Sheldon Demke/ St. George News/ Pool)

Chad past addressed his viewers to clarify his views regarding religion and his concern astatine the clip the introduction was written. 

"I privation to marque it precise wide that not each of this is bad," helium said. "Scripture study, not bad. Cooking, evidently not bad. And talking to my brainwashed ma astatine the time, besides not bad."

"This is conscionable maine giving my story. This isn't maine saying everything is bad."

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In a 3rd video posted to TikTok, Chad shared different diary introduction from the pursuing time successful 2023, successful which helium mulled implicit the conception of "lust" and his occupation arsenic a lifeguard astatine a section pool. 

"Being a lifeguard, I conscionable ticker people's choices implicit and over," helium wrote. "I person 2 opportunities to either consciousness compassion oregon lust. It is hard to escaped lust aft a beingness of feeding it."

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"But astatine the pool, I person much and much chances to evidence, I volition not lust. It volition instrumentality much practice. And I person not spoken the lustful connection oregon shared lustful comments. It is each immature and I request and privation to turn into a hard-working and principled man. I request to beryllium disciplined."

Franke earned an awesome online pursuing successful 2015 by posting videos of her children – Chad, Julie, Abby, Russell, Shari and Eve – connected her family’s YouTube channel, titled 8Passengers. The Utah blogger rapidly roseate to fame, earning implicit 2 cardinal followers connected her platform.

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However, the popularity of the family’s YouTube transmission began to autumn aft Chad mentioned successful a video that helium had been forced to slumber connected a beanbag seat for respective months arsenic punishment. 

Seven years later, Franke began partnering with arguable household therapist Jodi Hildebrandt connected a podcast and joint-Instagram account, "Moms of Truth," wherever the brace shared aggravated and often-abusive parenting tactics.

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Hildebrandt soon became a cardinal fig successful the Franke family's lives, and yet moved successful with the household aft Shari, Franke’s oldest child, near for college. 

In 2023, Utah authorities arrested some Franke and Hildebrandt connected charges of abusing Franke’s 2 youngest children, a 9-year-old miss and a 12-year-old boy.

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Authorities became alert of the maltreatment aft Franke’s lad fled Hildebrandt’s location and reached a neighbor, who called 911 to study the malnourished lad had duct portion connected his wrists and ankles. 

The brace were arrested successful August 2023 and subsequently pleaded blameworthy to kid maltreatment successful December 2023. Both Franke and Hildebrandt were sentenced to 4 consecutive presumption betwixt a minimum of 30 years and a maximum of 60 years successful situation successful February 2024.

Fox News Digital's Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.