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up to 60 years in prison: One to 15 years per chid abuse charge she faced, meaning she can serve between four and 60 years for all four charges she plead guilty to in December.
Before her sentencing, Franke broke down in tears as she said to the Utah court, “My charges are just. I … believed dark was light and right was wrong. I would do anything in this world for you. I took from you all that was soft, and safe, and good,” she said, as if addressing her children.
by neighbors, after having escaped Hildebrandt’s Utah home. Police found another one of Franke’s six children inside the home in a similarly horrific state. Both women were initially charged with six felony counts of aggravated child abuse but two were dropped as part of their plea agreement.“The treatment these children received at the hands of those whom the children had a right to trust, was horrific and inhumane, both physically and psychologically.
The Frankes hosted the wildly popular Youtube series “8 Passengers” that started off as a window into their family life. Between 2015 and 2020, their channel amassed over 2.5 million subscribers. But over the years, the family’s modes of punishment and moral judgment were brought into question. One year, they withheld all Christmas presents for two of their children to teach them a lesson that would “really hit them.
Franke and Hildebrandt, a Utah counselor previously put on probation for unrelated malpractice, formed an authoritative parenting support group and Youtube channel in 2022 called ConneXions, which many onlookers described as cult-like. By that point, Kevin Franke was out of the picture and the two eldest children had distanced themselves from their mother.
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