• badbytes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ahh good ole UTAH, 5k church congregations to less than 50 liquor stores. Morality at it’s finest.

  • clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been trying to follow this story, but I’ve got some questions.

    How does the friend fit in to this story? Why were Franke’s kids left with her long enough for her to be starving them?

    Where was the dad? Why isn’t he being charged with abuse? Or at least neglect, if he didn’t have custody? How could he have not known his kids were being treated poorly?

    Why did cps take so long to respond? Neighbors and family members had made numerous reports over a very long period of time, but nothing happened. Why were so many reports blatantly ignored?

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      1 year ago

      I can maybe answer some of that. fell down this weird rabbit hole about her family last year. the friend is some kind of professional (psychologist maybe?), so Ruby would leave her kids with her for “treatment.” they sent the oldest son to one of those weird wilderness “camps” which sounded a lot like the type of “school” Paris Hilton was at. so leaving the other kids at the friend’s house isnt so far fetched.

      I’m really confused about the dad. he was in so many videos and clearly involved enough with the family to know there was some fucked up shit happening. Ruby was clearly in charge, but he was there.

      the whole story is so awful and I’m glad the kids are finally getting help.