RUBY FRANKE/JODI HILDEBRANDT: SENTENCED! Law & Crime with Hidden True Crime Reports. Listen to Full sentencing

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Hidden True Crime

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Justice is served in a Utah courtroom on February 20th, 2024 in the case of YouTuber mom Ruby Franke and her therapist Jodi Hildebrandt. Hidden Host Lauren Matthias reported live that morning from St George, Utah on the Law and Crime Network. While Lauren reports live, Listen to Ruby and Jodi's full sentencing statements as well as the press conference following the news.

August 30, 2023--a brave 12-year-old boy escapes a house of torture in Southern Utah --rescuing himself and his 10-year-old sister. A neighbor feeds the emaciated boy and calls 911. The children's mother YouTube Celebrity Ruby Franke, and Ruby's therapist Jodi Hildebrandt, are arrested and charged with 6 counts of aggravated child abuse.

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Host and psychologist Dr John Matthias will also soon weigh in on the statements.

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0:00.0	bring in Laura and Matthias with us as a journalist and host of the hidden true crime.
0:05.0	Lauren, can you give us an idea what's going on in that courtroom right now?
0:09.0	It sounds to me like it's the lawyers trying to justify to the judge the plea agreement so that the
0:15.8	judge accepts the plea and goes forward with sentencing which your thoughts.
0:18.8	You know it's interesting to hear that a cat is there as well as Kevin and that
0:25.2	Kevin is crying. I think that what they're you know what we're going to learn
0:28.7	today is is it going to be consecutive and I think that that's what everybody is waiting with bated breath and wanting to know
0:36.0	and it sounds like we're going to find out. Let's see.
0:39.0	Hidden, a true crime podcast, a forensic psychologist and a journalist explore the hidden motives behind
0:49.0	unthinkable crimes while examining our deepest fears along the way. Yeah, well Lauren, Hidden True Crime Podcast, Hidden True Crime, let's talk about that issue because, you know, a lot of the cases that I've handled as a prosecutor they weren't really hidden.
1:15.4	They came right out and were right in front of you, murder cases, things of that nature.
1:20.2	This was something where a crime was literally lying in wait.
1:24.0	It was being hidden from the public under the veneer of these individuals who were telling
1:29.2	people what to do to raise their children properly. yet the level of abuse that we find out was going on here was quite amazing that while they were kind of like signs and people kind of complaining about it that this was not found out earlier.
1:46.2	What are your thoughts as a person that specializes in crime and hidden crime in particular about why this case is a little bit different than most.
1:57.0	Right, the hidden motives.
1:58.0	Thank you for asking that Bob.
2:00.0	You know, I think one thing is these children thought they were evil and that they were
2:04.2	seeing Yody Hildebrandt a therapist who is in a position of power someone you're
2:09.1	supposed to trust that people in the community did trust, then, you know, is charged and convicted as the abuser in this case, and that these children were so brainwashed that they believed that the abuse was their fault. There is this bit of religious element and as well as this
2:27.0	idea that we should trust this therapist that she is in this position of power. I think it gets
2:31.5	into a little bit of a cult
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