On her popular and sometimes controversial YouTube channel, Ruby Franke meticulously documented family life with her husband and six children for millions of followers. But newly released handwritten journals reveal that the Utah mommy blogger also obsessively documented the harrowing months-long abuse she inflicted on her two young children she believed were “possessed” by the devil.
“I will not feed a demon,” Franke wrote in one July entry about her 12-year-old son.
Prosecutors allege that in addition to starving her kids, Franke and her business partner shaved the kids’ heads, subjected them to manual labor in the desert heat while barefoot, doused them in dirty mop water, forced them to perform wall sits for hours, and denied them beds to sleep in.
