Stop scrolling because I need to tell you about the

you two-tuber mom who just got sentenced for child abuse.

Child abuse that was obvious through her videos on YouTube.

But let's back up and figure out how we even got here.

So beginning around 2015, Ruby Frankie

went out of her way to make her life seem like a dream.

That's when she began her fateful journey

as a mom-fluencer, posting what were meant

to be aspirational videos on YouTube

about her family and her parenting strategies.

Her channel, Eight Passengers,

was named for her own eight-person family.

Ruby, her husband, Kevin, and their six children. Now in her videos Ruby talked about

redecorating their home and installing a bidet in the bathroom. She also

spoke about her attitudes toward parenting and discipline.

And it was pretty clear in these videos

that Ruby was a very strict mom.

And that's an understatement.

In one video, which she posted in 2020. Her then 15 year old son

Chad mentioned that he'd been sleeping on a beanbag instead of a bed for the past seven months and this isn't because they didn't have

a bed it was a punishment for playing pranks on his brother he literally got his bed taken away. Now obviously this generated a huge

backlash online. A lot of users protested that depriving a child of a bed to

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