The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom - The Shari Franke Story Book Review
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
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The Franke Family became internet famous with Ruby Franke creating a YouTube channel, 8 Passengers. On this channel, she shared many aspects of their daily lives and the happy family they were. In 2015, she created the blog that followed her and her husband and their 6 kids and posted 5 days a week at 6 a.m. and quickly became a vlog followed by millions.
This fame led her to want more and more of her life shared in the spotlight, even if the kids were not a willing part of sharing so much with people around the world. Suddenly in 2020, cracks in her story began to show as her 15-year-old son said he had been kicked out of his bedroom and made to sleep in a beanbag chair. Could this mother that shared so many happy family moments, actually be abusing her children?
A meeting with Jodi Hildebrand, a counselor and mental health coach at ConneXions, life changed even more dramatically for the children. Jodi and Ruby started a podcast and started finding many new ways to "punish" Ruby's children. Some, if not all, being child abuse. Anyone who went against the ideas of these two women would soon find that life was not pleasant for them at all. Even Kevin, Ruby's husband who was removed from the home and told not to be in contact with his children.
In this book, Shari Franke, Ruby's daughter describes what life was both before and after the experience with Jodi Hilderbrand and Ruby Franke. Determined to not allow her mother to get away with abusing her younger siblings, Shari searched for adults that would help her to see what was truly going on in "The House of My Mother".
With CPS involved many times with calls from Shari and others, finally the two women were arrested and sentenced for the child abuse these children suffered. A happy family broken by a mother that truly was, in my opinion, looking for her own validation as an important member of society.
This fame led her to want more and more of her life shared in the spotlight, even if the kids were not a willing part of sharing so much with people around the world. Suddenly in 2020, cracks in her story began to show as her 15-year-old son said he had been kicked out of his bedroom and made to sleep in a beanbag chair. Could this mother that shared so many happy family moments, actually be abusing her children?
A meeting with Jodi Hildebrand, a counselor and mental health coach at ConneXions, life changed even more dramatically for the children. Jodi and Ruby started a podcast and started finding many new ways to "punish" Ruby's children. Some, if not all, being child abuse. Anyone who went against the ideas of these two women would soon find that life was not pleasant for them at all. Even Kevin, Ruby's husband who was removed from the home and told not to be in contact with his children.
In this book, Shari Franke, Ruby's daughter describes what life was both before and after the experience with Jodi Hilderbrand and Ruby Franke. Determined to not allow her mother to get away with abusing her younger siblings, Shari searched for adults that would help her to see what was truly going on in "The House of My Mother".
With CPS involved many times with calls from Shari and others, finally the two women were arrested and sentenced for the child abuse these children suffered. A happy family broken by a mother that truly was, in my opinion, looking for her own validation as an important member of society.
This pair were just awful child abusers. I believe they may be psychopaths.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad story this turned out to be...and all done in the name of religion. It is scary how bent some people can get and think they are right. I'll have to check and see what their sentences are for child abuse. Have a good weekend- xo Diana
ReplyDeleteVery sad it is awful what people do.
ReplyDeleteI watched the documentary of this that was on television. So sad what those children had to go though.
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