Once-popular YouTuber Ruby Franke will enter into a plea agreement for the multiple counts of child abuse she faces when she appears before a judge in Washington County on Monday.
Winward Law, the firm representing Franke, issued a statement Friday confirming their client is working with prosecutors on a plea agreement.
Franke and her business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, were arrested in August after one of Franke’s children escaped Hildebrandt’s home knocked on the door of a neighbor in Ivins and asked for food and water. The neighbor noticed duct tape on the child’s ankles and wrists and called police, according to court documents.
Police later found one of Franke’s daughter’s emaciated inside Hildebrandt’s home.
Both Franke and Hildebrandt were charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse. The two had previously collaborated on parenting advice videos for ConneXions.
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