Feb. 22, 2024 - Candace Owens
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| Okay, Ruby Frankie, I think you guys are going to be really interested in this case if you are not following it. | |
| Initially we thought about covering it on the show, but it was just kind of one of those weird, out in Utah, they are a Mormon family, there's nothing wrong with them obviously being Mormon, I have tons of Mormon listeners. | |
| I just didn't know if it was going to add anything to the discussion to cover this, because it got quite dark. | |
| She was one of these YouTubers. | |
| There's tons of them now that look like they have the perfect family, right? | |
| That was kind of the draw of her YouTube channel. | |
| It was entitled 8 Passengers, and it featured her, her husband, and their six children. | |
| Super cute. | |
| Everybody's dressed well. | |
| They're church-going. | |
| They're supposed to be this perfect Christian family. | |
| And then things got really dark, and I'm going to tell you exactly what happened. | |
| They had 2 million subscribers and people started realizing that some of her punishing | |
| techniques were a little strange. | |
| Following her rise, they started to criticize the fact that she was allowing her children | |
| to prank one another. | |
| And then they recognized that one of her children was sleeping in a bean bag. | |
| This was back in June 2020. | |
| And concerned viewers of the channel actually went ahead and contacted the local child protective | |
| services saying like, something's not right. | |
| They even launched a change.org petition saying that, hey, as a form of punishment, you shouldn't | |
| be allowing your child to sleep in the bean bag. | |
| And when people asked her about this, she basically said, no, he loves it. | |
| This is actually a healthy form of punishment, whatever it was. | |
| And then it got a little bit darker. | |
| In August of 2022, she also faced criticism for refusing to bring lunch to her then six-year-old | |
| after her daughter said she had packed food, but had actually forgotten it, right? | |
| So as a punishment for forgetting the food, she said, I'm just going to refuse to bring the children lunch. | |
| I'm just not going to allow the six-year-old to eat. | |
| Again, way too harsh. | |
| People were noticing this. | |
| CPS did nothing about it. | |
| The police officers, despite going to her home a few times, didn't actually do anything extreme. | |
| And then everything exploded in August of last year. | |
| Both Frankie and a woman named Jodi Nan Hildebrandt were arrested. | |
| Now, Jodi Nan Hildebrandt, just for clarity, is her mentor. | |
| It's the mother's mentor. | |
| She also describes her as a counselor to the children. | |
| And they were both arrested after her 12-year-old son escaped from Hildebrandt's house, his counselor's house, and ran to a neighbor to call 911. | |
| The boy was malnourished. | |
| He had visible injuries with duct tape on his limbs. | |
| And later, he would tell investigators that Hildebrandt, his alleged counselor, his mom's mentor, would put cayenne pepper and honey on his wounds that were caused by being tied with the rope. | |
| That's at least according to the arrest warrants. | |
| The public safety department in Utah in Santa Clara, Ivins, said that they proceeded to the residence and they discovered that there was another juvenile that was in comparable condition, someone that was also malnourished, that wasn't being fed well. | |
| You get deeper into this case and it gets even stranger. | |
| The woman, the mother that is, was telling her children that they were possessed and the children believed it. | |
| There was one particular, going through the court documents, she was telling her young daughter, I can't even imagine this, unimaginable evil, that the punishments that she was putting her through were necessary to absolve her from possessions. | |
| I remember just looking at this case and deciding not to cover it because I was first and foremost just infuriated. | |
| Anything that involves children, you know, precious children and parents that are warping their brains or government officials that are warping their brains makes me so angry that I don't even want to speak of it. | |
| It puts me in a bad mood. | |
| But things got really interesting when she was due to give her statement in front of the court. | |
| So I will update you to let you know that she is now up for 30 years in prison, and she's not fighting it. | |
| So typically what you see in these scenarios is you get a lawyer. | |
| A lawyer will say to you, oh, look, you look like the perfect family. | |
| Let's try to get your sentence reduced. | |
| Maybe you can plead temporary insanity. | |
| Right? | |
| Maybe we can say, oh, you have no other charges in the past. | |
| You've had a squeaky clean record. | |
| We're so used to seeing that in the court system, where people are just trying to get away with their crimes, that the Ruby Franke statement and the entire court case has shocked me. | |
| Because she has completely submitted to it. | |
| Okay? | |
| So she has said, nope. | |
| She's not fighting this. | |
| She wants this to be over quickly. | |
| That's why we're saying that she got arrested in August and already she's being sentenced because she's not fighting the charges. | |
| In fact, she has said that, I want to go to prison. | |
| I deserve to go to prison for what I have done. | |
| I'm going to allow you to hear some bits of her statements so that we can talk about it because I don't know how to feel about it. | |
| I feel weird about this and I actually want to know what you guys think about her statements. | |
| First and foremost, like I said, she opens up by saying, I'm not fighting this, and take a listen to what she had to say. | |
| I would like to make a statement without any intent to change my stipulated sentence. | |
| For the past four years, I've chosen to follow counsel and guidance that has led me into a dark delusion. | |
| My distorted version of reality went largely unchecked as I would isolate from anyone who challenged me. | |
| I was led to believe that this world was an evil place, filled with cops who control, hospitals that injure, government agencies that brainwash, church leaders who lie in lust, husbands who refuse to protect, and children who need abused. | |
| My choice to believe and behave this paranoia culminated into criminal activity. | |
| For which I stand before you today ready to take accountability. | |
| Okay, well, there's a lot to unpack there. | |
| So first and foremost, I'm not trying to reduce the sentence here. | |
| She's saying, I need to go to prison. | |
| And then she starts talking about her delusion and how she got there. | |
| So I should probably clarify for you guys that the reason that her husband was not arrested is because they had separated 13 months prior to all of this going down. | |
| And in fact, they had been in counseling together since 2021, With Jodi Nan Hildebrandt. | |
| So this woman who is providing her counseling, this woman who I guess you could say was acting the part of a psychologist, is also the woman that allegedly led her to these delusions. | |
| So she says she made her think that even her husband was against her, that the church was against her, that the government was against her. | |
| And when she goes in deeper on this and when you look at this case, you find out that she got there really by Training her to believe that everything was some sort of a conspiracy. | |
| That the entire world, that she had to execute these sorts of punishments against her children to help them. | |
| Now you might say that's absurd. | |
| How could somebody brainwash you, Candace, to abuse your own children? | |
| How could someone brainwash you not to believe in your own husband? | |
| To turn against your own life, to turn against your own church? | |
| To think everything is some sort of a conspiracy? | |
| Guys, are you paying attention to psychology today? | |
| We are having children that are being convinced that they're different species. | |
| You know, I sat down with Brianna, who identifies as trans, but was very open and totally fine with me referring to Brianna as a he. | |
| A wonderful interview, but that really opened my eyes to the danger of psychology. | |
| That Brianna had shared with us that he chopped off, went to a doctor to have his private parts removed, and Brianna freely admits, this is because I was deluded by people that I was supposed to trust. | |
| So yeah, this then, in that context, in the context of our society today, does not seem so extreme anymore. | |
| When you trust somebody, that they can say to you, no, no, no, no, like everybody around you is not telling you the truth, right? | |
| The reason why I even more suspected that this could be true and that she fell victim to a potential psychopath is because the judge, even, when he was dealing with Jodi Nonn, Jodi Nonn-Hildebrandt, this counselor, acknowledged how dark and how disturbed he was by the lack of emotion, that he didn't feel that there was any remorse coming from this counselor whatsoever about what she had done. | |
| But I want to keep going here because now you understand that somebody got into Ruby Franke's mind and convinced Ruby that she needed to abuse her children because the whole world was against her, right? | |
| Listen to this part of the statement. | |
| At first, I want to be clear, we're not showing you everything. | |
| Ruby goes around and actually thanks the doctors, thanks the police officers, thanks everybody who she says saved her children. | |
| Contrary to what she was led to believe, that they wouldn't be able to do anything to help her children, that they were all conspiring against her. | |
| And then she moves on and she addresses her family. | |
| Mother, her father, her husband. | |
| Take a listen. | |
| My charges are just. | |
| They offer safety to my family, accountability to the public, and they did show mercy to me. | |
| My mother and father, I have been utterly wretched to you. | |
| You have offered me unconditional love, and for that I have offered you unconditional contempt. | |
| My husband of more than 23 years, you were the love of my life. | |
| I'm so sorry to leave to you to finish what we both started together. | |
| The ending of our marriage is a tragedy, and you are wrapped around my heart. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I will never be able to undo. | |
| She says there, in case you couldn't understand it, that the ending of her marriage is a tragedy, | |
| and at this moment in the courtroom, because reporters were in the room, | |
| her husband broke down crying too. | |
| And just to be clear, her husband asked for her to be sent to prison as well. | |
| Obviously, he's horrified by what happened to his children in his absence, | |
| but you could just sense that there was a lot of love between them, he just lost his wife. | |
| Psychology completely warped somebody who he loved and who he married and turned her into a monster, | |
| and she is acknowledging that she became a monster and that she deserves punishment, | |
| that she deserves to go to prison. | |
| But it's this last portion that I felt was so compelling. | |
| And it was really her plea to God, and she again asked for no mercy in this courtroom, | |
| but listen to what she says. | |
| has. | |
| Judge Walton, I know that standing before you today is a necessary step towards that end. | |
| I'm committed to continuing my learning until all of my toxic layers are shed, and I am ready to re-enter as a contributing member of our beautiful society. | |
| She says there that her greatest desire is to one day stand in God's court, spotless and confident. | |
| And that's why she wants to go to prison. | |
| She wants to go to prison because she wants to make sure that she serves time for the sins that she has committed against her own family, her mother, her father, her children, her friends. | |
| It's worth listening to her message to the court in its entirety if you guys want to go out there and pursue it and really think about it. | |
| And I'm just wondering how you guys feel about it because I am so used to, in this society, everyone being told that they have a right. | |
| I committed this crime but you should understand why I did it because I was abused when I was a child. | |
| Everyone looking for an excuse. | |
| Everyone being handed an excuse. | |
| Largely by psychiatrists you're a bad person, but we understand you know you lost your mother in their youth and that and that's your honor is why she did it because She lost her mother at a very young age and it changed her Oh this person did something horrible, but you should hear about what happened to them That was an absolute tragedy when they were a child. | |
| I hate that it means that everyone gets away with everything all the time and so I think just The way that she approached this surprised me because we don't see this anymore. | |
| We don't see someone just coming to heal and saying, you know what, I'm completely wrong and I deserve every single thing that is thrown at me. | |
| I just want to clarify that regardless of her statement and regardless of what happened here, obviously the victims are the children. | |
| What happened here Hey guys, if you liked this video, you will definitely like the full episode even better. |
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