Ruby Franke, Sobbing At Sentencing, Blames Child Abuse On Being 'deceived' Into Thinking The World Was 'evil'

The disgraced YouTube mommy vlogger Ruby Franke has been sentenced. 8 Passengers/YouTubeThe former YouTube momfluencer Ruby Franke was sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison.Franke, known for the channel 8 Passengers, was charged with four counts of aggravated child abuse.Franke's business partner, Jodi Hildebrandt, faced the same charges.The disgraced momfluencer Ruby Franke was sentenced Tuesday to four to 60 years in prison after the mother of six pleaded guilty, along with her associate, to abusing two of Franke's children.Neither woman will serve more than 30 years in prison as Utah law prohibits consecutive sentences exceeding that.Moments before a Utah district-court judge sentenced Franke to consecutively serve one to 15 years behind bars for each of the four counts of aggravated child abuse, Franke tearfully told the court she never meant to harm her children.'I was led to believe that this world was an evil place,' Franke saidThe former mommy blogger told the court she was "deceived" and had a "distorted version of reality" that went "largely unchecked.""I was led to believe that this world was an evil place, filled with cops who control, hospitals that injure, government agencies that brainwash, church leaders who lie and lust, husbands who refuse to protect, and children who need abuse," Franke said."My choice to believe and behave this paranoia culminated into criminal activity, for which I stand before you today ready to take accountability," she added.Franke previously pleaded guilty to all four counts of child abuse.While sobbing, she referred to her six children as her "little chicks" and to herself as the "mama duck who was consistently waddling" them "to safety.""I can see now over the past four years I was in a deep undercurrent that led us to danger," Franke said.