In the wake of the child abuse charges against momfluencer and vlogger Ruby Franke, her husband, Kevin, has been dragged into the dirt as well.
For those unfamiliar with the case, Ruby Franke, a mother of six, had an active YouTube channel named “8 Passengers,” where she documented the intimate and mundane details of her children’s and family’s daily lives. The channel has been controversial as Ruby is one of those creators who use their children’s private lives for financial gain.
She also appeared in the video series of ConneXions Classroom, a counseling service founded by Jodi Hildebrandt. Jodi was a therapist whose license was suspended in 2012.
On Wednesday morning, the 12-year-old son of Franke escaped from Hildebrandt’s house and ran to the neighbors for food and water. There was duct tape around his ankles and wrists, and he had deep lacerations from being tied up with rope.
Following a police report, Franke’s 10-year-old daughter was also recovered from the Hildebrandt house. Both the siblings were malnourished and were rushed to a local hospital. Ruby and Jodi were arrested on suspicion of two felony counts, each of aggravated child abuse.
After Ruby’s abusive personality was revealed, people began digging into past records of her husband and realized that he was no less problematic.
Who Is Ruby Franke’s Husband?
Ruby Franke’s husband, Kevin Franke, is the father of their six children and was frequently featured on their suspended YouTube channel, “8 Passengers.” There were rumors that Kevin also has an arrest record, but they have not been proven true.
As of the latest update, Kevin will be taking care of his six children after his wife’s arrest. His attorney, Randy S. Kester, told news outlets that Franke’s focus is “simply to keep his children together under his fatherly care.”
The 8 Passengers channel has been controversial for a while as the parents, especially Ruby, were seen taking away meals from her children, not giving them any personal space, and even taking away Christmas from her two youngest children.
The accusations were denied by the Frankes, and they wrote off everything in the name of parental guidance. At the time, Franke commented that the proofs against them were just “slanderous videos” depicting them as villains.
According to Kevin,
“When you cut and slice and put it together, you can make even the most saintly person to look villainous. They find anyway, any justification they can muster to criticize and attack us because they feel uncomfortable, ultimately seeing our family and our interactions. But the truth is our children are learning to become independent, self-sufficient, and are being taught how to pursue their own happiness through their own choices and their own relationships in life.”
What Were Kevin Franke’s ‘Rate My Professor’ Reviews?
While Kevin Franke was not arrested with his wife, Ruby Franke, in the child abuse case, he still came under fire. He was an associate professor of civil and construction engineering at Brigham Young University, Utah, and was allegedly fired in the spring of 2023. The negative reviews on his ‘Rate My Professor’ page have been recently highlighted.
Of course, some reviews on the page are brand new and were clearly driven by the Ruby Franke case going viral, but there are also plenty of negative reviews that are a year old.
There are plenty of negative reviews from 2022, many of them calling Kevin ‘toxic,’ ‘rude,’ or ‘controlling.’ The significant tags in his reviews are ‘Tough Grader’ ‘Lecture Heavy,’ and ‘Lots of Homework,’
Kevin has a fair mix of positive reviews as well, but it leans more towards the negative side. There has been no confirmation that he was actually fired, and his page from Brigham Young University was removed.
While he was not arrested in the case, many netizens have pointed out that he was equally responsible for the abuse. As a father, he did not put a stop to the blatant invasion of privacy and wanted to keep the children under his ‘fatherly care’ only after the family’s dirty laundry was aired out.
As a result, people blame Kevin just as much as Ruby. The family, including Ruby’s sisters, have come under fire for staying silent despite knowing how she treated her children.
So, what do you think of the entire case? Do you think Kevin deserves the same fate as his wife, Ruby?
Tell us in the comments below.
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Yes, absolutely there is no way that he did not know for the simple fact that their son was sleeping on a bean bag chair for not just days or weeks but months I mean how do you not know you live under the same house and you don’t know that or how he would come home and the kids would be duct taped up or kids never going to their dad and saying hey I’m hungry mom won’t let me eat he knew everything that was going on