Content warning: This story discusses child abuse.
Ruby Franke is facing legal trouble for alleged child abuse.
The mother of six, who ran the now-deleted 8 Passengers YouTube channel, was detained and stays in custody for aggravated child abuse charges in Utah, in response to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt, her business partner, were arrested on the costs Aug. 30 after police were alerted to a report of a starved child, the Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department said in a press release.
Authorities said the kid, who appeared “emaciated and malnourished” with “open wounds and duct tape across the extremities,” had been in search of food and water. The kid, whose name and age weren’t disclosed, was transported to an area hospital as a consequence of their “severe” condition.
Police said they were informed that children in a close-by residence could possibly be undergoing similar circumstances, prompting officers to go looking a close-by home, where they said they found one other juvenile “in an analogous physical condition of malnourishment.” That child, too, was transported to a hospital, per the press release.