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_Published 2024-03-27. In February, the former YouTuber Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt were sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for four counts of aggravated child abuse. Last week, the Washington County Attorney’s Office released evidence from the case, including body cam footage of the two women’s arrests, Franke’s handwritten journal entries in which she justifies abuse, over 200 photos, witness statements, and more._


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Who did them? You're not in trouble with me. Okay. We're just trying to figure out what's going on you okay? It's just you and here. I'm Sergeant tobler. What's your name? How do you say Avalon? Where's your sister at? You doing okay? It's okay. If I just sit here with you, we don't have to say anything. don't want to or if you feel more comfortable talking to him I can step out. I'll wait till I have a lawyer. We just want to get to know you a little so if you just kind of want to share a little about yourself and what brought you down here and So I trust my turning I said don't say anything and I said, I know that it just let me be there with you when you talk.

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