Ruby Franke & Jodi Hildebrandt (Chapter 1)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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00:00 Introducing Ruby Franke & family YouTube channels
11:25 Possible sadism
18:32 Forms of punishment & abuse
39:10 Restrictions on CPS & attachment wounds
57:29 The role of wealth & racism
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September 27, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserve listeners, a lot of you have been asking me to talk about the Ruby Frankie abuse of her |
| 0:06.2 | children and Jodie Hildebrandt, I believe is the other individual's name, and I already talked |
| 0:12.3 | about it with Umberto in the Dugger family deep dive recently, but there's a lot more to get into |
| 0:18.1 | and there's been new developments in the story. So I'm gonna watch some news stories and talk about |
| 0:25.3 | my clinical experience with child abuse. I obviously have treated as a therapist, I've treated a lot |
| 0:30.8 | of clients who have been abused as children or they were children themselves when I was treating them |
| 0:36.7 | and they were abused by their previous caregivers or other people, but also I have treated |
| 0:42.6 | perpetrators of domestic violence and of child abuse. I for a time I would actually be contracted by |
| 0:50.7 | child protective services, CPS in Washington state and they would actually send me into the homes |
| 0:56.8 | to work with families who were identified maybe even sometimes convicted of child abuse. They were |
| 1:03.4 | identified as parents who were abusing their children and so in the beginning of my career it was |
| 1:07.9 | one of my specialties so let's watch. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda, I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 1:12.9 | Obviously there's a trigger warning heavily to this episode given the nature of these crimes. |
| 1:18.8 | Let's watch. Only you say it one more time and then you're going to lose the privilege to eat dinner. |
| 1:23.3 | This is Ruby Frankie, the mom of six behind the popular parenting YouTube channel eight passengers. |
| 1:28.6 | On August 30th Frankie and her business partner Jody Hildebrandt were arrested after |
| 1:32.8 | Frankie's 12-year-old son inclimbed out of a window of Hildebrandt's home to ask neighbors for |
| 1:36.8 | food and water. The neighbors immediately called authorities after seeing the malnourished boy |
| 1:41.4 | at open wounds and duct tape around his wrists and ankles. So this is on the YouTube channel. |
| 1:47.6 | Now this news so you can check that out there. I'm just going to watch a little bit of this to |
| 1:53.1 | I know all this all these details but maybe some of you don't so it's good to review this. |
| 1:58.0 | Utah police searched the Hildebrandt home and found Frankie's 10-year-old daughter in a similarly |
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