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The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah.

The 12-year-old son of Ruby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed advice to millions via a popular YouTube channel, had escaped through a window and approached several nearby homes until someone answered the door, according to documents released Friday by the Washington County Attorney’s office. 

Crime scene photos, body camera video and interrogation tapes were released a month after Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, a mental health counselor, were each sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. A police investigation determined religious extremism motivated the women to inflict horrific abuse on Franke’s children, Washington County Attorney Eric Clarke announced Friday.

“The women appeared to fully believe that the abuse they inflicted was necessary to teach the children how to properly repent for imagined ‘sins’ and to cast the evil spirits out of their bodies,” Clarke said.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (11 children)

The bitterest part?

  • "Do not harm little children" - Church of Satan
  • "One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason." - The Satanic Temple

Are you getting the picture? People who claim themselves to side with Satan are more eager to show compassion than people who claim to fight against a devil. It immediately reminds me what my grandma used to say, that "Protestants love the devil so much that they talk about him nonstop". (Not that the Catholic church is any better, I know.)

[I'm not Satanist, regardless of my nickname, by the way.]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

It's just that she's crazy. Christianity in no way encourages abuse of children or even people who are demon possessed.

Psalm 127:3 ESV‬ [3] Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

‭Matthew 19:13-15 ESV‬ [13] Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, [14] but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” [15] And he laid his hands on them and went away.

‭Luke 17:2 ESV‬ [2] It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.

It's just a paranoid/crazy person masquerading as religious.

Edit: turns out she isn't even a Christian, she's a Mormon. I guessed she was a Protestant Christian from your message.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Christianity in no way encourages abuse of children or even people who are demon possessed.

Neither does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or its members, who read and believe in the same verses you quoted.

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