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MOM OR MONSTER?

TO THE outside world she was a mom raising six kids, a devout Mormon and a hard taskmaster.

Ruby Franke made a name for herself and her husband, Kevin, documenting their family’s daily life on YouTube with her hugely popular channel, 8 Passengers.

She shared her slice-of-life videos of suburban America with her 2,5 million followers and generously doled out parenting advice. But the image Ruby tried to portray has forever been shattered by disturbing evidence that paints her more as a monster than a mom trying to do her best for her brood.

Her kids have claimed she beat and starved them when the cameras stopped rolling and their home was more house of horrors

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