Shari Franke, the eldest daughter of convicted child abuser Ruby Franke, discusses the possibility of forgiveness in a new memoir and interview.
The eldest daughter of Ruby Franke, a former popular family vlogger convicted of child abuse, spoke about whether she could ever forgive her mother. Shari Franke, 21, said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” that aired Tuesday, “Forgiveness is something I’ve had to study a lot and kind of think about what it means. But for me, forgiveness would look like not letting that consume every moment of my life.
” Ruby Franke pleaded guilty to four counts of child abuse in 2023 and received four separate prison sentences of one to 15 years each. Her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, received the same sentence. Shari Franke’s memoir, “The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom,” was released Tuesday by Simon & Schuster. For years, the Franke family was known for its popular and often controversial YouTube channel, “8 Passengers,” where Ruby Franke documented her life with her husband, Kevin Franke, and their six children. The channel had more than 2 million subscribers before it ended. In her book, Shari Franke said her mother “subjected me and my siblings to her twisted interpretation of crime and punishment all our lives — until Jodi came along, adding terrifying new flavors of sadism to the regime,” according to an excerpt made available on Amazon. (NBC News has not read a copy of the book. Shari Franke did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.) Ruby Franke and Hildebrandt were arrested in August 2023 after police found one of Franke’s sons emaciated with open wounds and bound with duct tape. The boy had escaped Hildebrandt’s home to a neighbor’s house. One of Franke’s daughters was found in Hildebrandt’s home in a similar malnourished condition. At her sentencing hearing last year, Ruby Franke tearfully apologized to her children. “I ... believed dark was light and right was wrong,” she said in the courtroom. “I would do anything in this world for you. I took from you all that was soft and safe and good”
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