Former mummy blogger and YouTuber Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt have reportedly been arrested in Utah on Wednesday under suspicion of two counts of aggravated child abuse.
According to arrest records obtained by Page Six, police were called after an “emaciated” child with duct tape around their ankles and wrists escaped through a window of licensed therapist Hildebrandt’s home in Utah and asked a neighbor for food and water. The neighbour hastily called the authorities who came to the scene to investigate.
The statement from local police says the child “appeared to be emaciated and malnourished, with open wounds and duct tape around the extremities,” per Page Six.
A second child was reportedly found at the home soon after, and both children were transported to hospital. The reports also alleged that Franke was arrested because she had filmed a video in Hidebrandt’s home days before the child was discovered, which police believed to show that she had “knowledge of the abuse, malnourishment, and neglect.”
