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This image taken from body camera footage provided by Washington County Attorney's Office shows Jodi Hildebrandt, left, and Ruby Franke, center, being arrested on child abuse charges on Aug. 30, 2023, in Ivins, Utah. The twelve-year-old son of Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a once-popular a YouTube channel, had escaped through a window and approached several nearby homes until someone answered the door, according to documents released Friday. (Washington County Attorney's Office via AP)

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'I will not feed a demon': YouTuber Ruby Franke's child abuse case rooted in religious extremism
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM - Associated Press
Fri,03/22/24-7:28PM , 62 Reads
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah.
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CORRECTS SENTENCE TO UP TO 30 YEARS, NOT 60 YEARS - Defendant Ruby Franke looks on during court Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in St. George, Utah. Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a once-popular a YouTube channel, shared a tearful apology to her children for physically and emotionally abusing them before a judge sentenced her to serve up to 30 years in prison, due to a Utah state law that caps the sentence duration for consecutive penalties. (Sheldon Demke/St. George News via AP, Pool)

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YouTube mom Ruby Franke apologizes at sentencing in child abuse case
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM - Associated Press
Tue,02/20/24-11:25AM , 70 Reads
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Ruby Franke, a Utah mother of six who gave parenting advice to millions via a once-popular a YouTube channel, shared a tearful apology to her children for physically and emotionally abusing them before a judge delivered a sentence that could put her in prison for years, if not decades.
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A Davis School District bus sits at the Bus Farm in Farmington, Utah, in this undated photo. A Black woman hired by the northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints a year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials. Joscelin Thomas, a former coordinator in the Davis School District's equal opportunity office, alleges in a federal lawsuit that district administrators treated her “as if she were stupid," accused her of having a substandard work ethic and denied her training and mentorship opportunities that were offered to her white colleagues. (Matt Gade/The Deseret News via AP, file)

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A woman was hired to investigate racial harassment after a suicide. Then she encountered it herself
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM - Associated Press
Thu,01/11/24-7:03PM , 49 Reads
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints the year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials.
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Callum Bradford rows during a club team practice at Jordan Lake, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Apex, N.C. Bradford, a transgender teen from Chapel Hill needed mental health care after overdosing on prescription drugs. He was about to be transferred to another hospital due to a significant bed shortage. A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities. Though UNC Hospitals policy discourages the practice, administrators say a massive bed shortage is forcing them to make tough decisions. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)

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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM - Associated Press
Thu,12/28/23-11:25PM , 61 Reads
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Four days of waiting in UNC Hospitals’ psychiatric emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question.

With knots in his stomach, the transgender teen asked: “Will I be placed in a girls’ unit?”

Yes.
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