INTERVIEW: Kevin Franke speaks to media for the first time since Ruby Franke's sentencing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- After Kevin Franke spoke at the Utah Capitol on July 9, 2024, he talked to local media about why he has stayed silent for so long, why he wants Utah lawmakers to change the laws, and moving forward with his life.
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Watch the full story here: th-cam.com/video/7a47ijBUwXQ/w-d-xo.html
🇺🇸 ~ Way too many on the right wing political side believe government and everybody else is after them. So I am glad he is speaking out. When people have certain ideologies it’s easier to believe everybody’s after them then to understand maybe they are the ones who are not in the right place.b
The police checked on his children more than he did.
and he as just as willing to believe in all this abuse in the name of religion. He was told to take off and he did. Crazy.
@@BrandilineMelt Shari made multiple calls but was ignored by police or cps.
And why would he distrust media ? Maybe if he been talking all this would not had happened
Well he was brainwashed before the abuse kicked in and he was told to stay away if he wanted his marriage to work. In his mind he was doing everything by the rules set by Jodi. I commend him for getting out of the cult he was basically in. He is on the right track to healing his family.
@@jc2385 I did like that part like them poor amish girls .. But they do not look into that
He is responsible for his children. The abuse happened way before Hildaabrant. All on video.
@@Mom_572 Agree
@@ivettecuevas4466 yes exactly
Exactly!!!!
I remember !
Strict is different than the horrific abuse they received under the women
When you haven’t seen your kids in a year and CPS calls you - you don’t ignore it. He was complicit and needs to take accountability. What a narcissist.
@@alican5695 AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
He was a very cruel parent too, even before Jodi got involved.
I agree with the law changes but he needs to be accountable for his lack of parental care as well.
@@janetdonald9801 exactly
Apparently police and CPS don't agree.
You bet. He blames Jodi however he had to have been a weak minded man to allow her to take over.
@janetdonald9801 absolutely Passing the buck on everybody else but taking no responsibility for his own abuse and abandonment of his children! What a nerve! If I was him I'd be thanking God I wasn't in jail with them!
@@janetdonald9801 he paid for that house they lived in...
HE ABANDONED HIS FAMILY.
This guy abused his kids too. What about the Christmas you took away from an 8 year old and 10 year old. Kevin you were part of the problem! SHAME ON YOU KEVIN!
Taking away Christmas should be illegal!
@@aikoerin6353 Seems to me he isn’t taking responsibility for his own historical actions ( when in the house and after) and involvement which makes his case difficult for me to get behind. It seems he’s displacing almost all the blame on Jodi, DOPL and the police. In Utah, “the family” has so much more rights ( schooling, pro religion etc) than many Blue States, it seems he perceives himself as 100 victim.
Daddy of the year 🙄 didn’t check on his children for over a year 😤
@@aikoerin6353 Still in denial isn't he. Sad. He abandoned his children to his abusive wife. He was warned but ignored the warnings.
Everything he did was Jodies fault not his but I do give Kevin credit for what he is doing now .
Wow! Zero accountability
He should do himself a favor and stay out of the limelight
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@@jenniferbyrne4567 I agree with you ..
i am glad he can use his experiences to be a voice,
@@jokich6379 well said !
@@jokich6379 If he learned something? Great! So far? No. He actually is bringing attention to why all guilty parties should be prosecuted. Hiding behind Shari's skirts?
Will he ever grow-up emotionally? He forever uses women as a shield.
Learn how to be a good man. At least the man part, please. If he cannot get that part right his attempt at being a father will forever fail.
The only reason the youngest are still alive is because of RF,Shari and a couple of complete strangers. He played no part in saving them at all from further abuse.
For his part? It was Shari, he directly abused the most. Should she forgive him? I don't know? His using her name because his is mud in court? As if he appears with her seal of approval? Makes me very uncomfortable. Without publicly acknowledging how he tormented his daughter whose intentions were always good? Yes, I am very uncomfortable with his failure to admit all of the truth. Not just the parts that make him appear....like Shari because there are none.
In time? There is a sliver of hope. Still waiting for it. For his sake. The children, hopefully, have found good people to help them discover what real love is.
Working alongside the same daughter he tried to have ARRESTED for taking her own belongings out of her own home… 🤷🏼♂️
Yepp!! Seriously. He's being told how to act now when he's been guilty the whole time, whether or not he believes so
He thought she was against him like Ruby.
Maybe but his older kids are talking to him so we don’t know everything. The older boy did speak out on these issue. You can see it on TH-cam.
@@MyWadester I honestly don’t trust the older kid’s opinions either. They’re dealing with MAJOR trauma recovery and they’re still brainwashed. You don’t just get over brainwashing. It’s a process and even with therapy, it isn’t overnight.
You don't know that she took only her belongings.
Something about this smells fishy. I don’t believe a word he says.
@Hot-N-AZ he's trying to become a politician because, much like his wife, he's addicted to fame.
Lets not forget the abuse started long before Jodi ever came into the picture. This "father" stood and let it happen.
And he was still standing by his wife and defending her when she was arrested!
I can’t even continue listening to this sick boy
Kevin Frankie also had a responsibility to his children and ignored them. Pot calling kettle black. However authorities need to put children first
@@Lisa-ue3tk he is as guilty as the mothers,now trying to change the law. Sq
I agree, lets hope he has realized his mistakes and will do some personal reflection & change his approach moving forward. Lets face it no one is perfect and we all make mistakes, some are just totally explosive as in this case. Luckily they were not killed, well not literally.
Yes but I think he was brainwash too.
He does realize his mistakes and this realization is part of his trauma. He stated it.
Mr Franke knew what was happening to his younger children. Remember when you agreed to "not" give your child any Christmas gifts. How and why did you give JH such power over you? If you are that weak, how do you expect to be a loving and protective father? You are an adult and should have known better.
@@user-ik3vd5sc9d Christmas, as a pagan holiday, is highly overrated.
He takes no responsibility, its everyone else's fault. Where were you for a year and a half when your children needed you? Also, before all this happened, you
used your children along with your wife to earn Millions on you tube 8 passengers.
Exactly everybody but him self. Unbelievable.
He said his son was a hero-true, and sadly Kevin was a zero
I wonder if he ever resented the boy for getting Ruby busted. I am concerned for the kids if they think that his behavior is in any way excusable. Abuse victims are so susceptible to manipulation and gaslighting. All these kids need to recover and reprogram in so many ways.
Not forgetting he was aware of a LOT of the abuse as he saw and filmed it for 8 passengers.
How does a father allow 2 women to control him and keep him away from his children for 1 year. I don't feel sorry for him. He needs to take responsibility for not checking on his children. He should of talk to his kids daily. That's what fathers do
He let this happen to his kids as a dad. Throw him in with the two.
Please don't enable this man's attempts at rehabilitating his public image. All of the abuse he's describing was happening after his wife and Hildebrant told him to move out of the family home, which he agreed to do in an effort to save his relationship with his now ex wife. If he'd made a serious attempt to visit them instead of prioritizing his marriage over them he could have put a stop to it.
@@MrDeelightful pretty sure when the boy slept on a beanbag for a year daddy was there .
@@debradonohue6598 when they refused to take food for the youngest E, they said they wouldn’t give the youngest two Christmas presents, but the eldest 4 got them, made the children pay for things they’d left around including homework
@@debradonohue6598 he was there when Chad was sent away too
@@debradonohue6598 He was there when "they" took Christmas away from the two youngest children and then made them watch everybody else opening presents. Pretty sick to me.
He was there when eating was defined a privilege.
HE REMAINED SILENT
Oh, I just know this interview is going to have me in an unholy rage. He abandoned his children to a lady he believed was possessed by demons who took over master bedroom, the top floor of his house, and ultimately his wife and babies. He handed them over on a platter to a woman he actually believed was possessed by demons. Just so he could have his freedom to do whatever. Just so he could feel free of responsibility. Just so he could show up here today and pretend to be a victim. This man has NO ability to be a father, protector, provider.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Doing damage control strictly for yourself. How easy for you to blame the women when you should have been insistent in seeing your kids and know that they're are safe
I think he realises that now
He's only blaming one woman, to him Ruby can do no wrong.
Not any more.
There is not one "licensed professional " that would ever convince me not to see my kids!!
How can a man not know what’s going on in his HOME
YOU ARE COMPLICIT!!
My nan, you had the legal right to your children. You had the responsibility. You also were complicit to the abuse before Jody ever entered the picture. This man is doubling down rather than holding himself accountable. No one should offer this man a job until he repents.
Oh please, can't even listen to him..🙄
DAMAGE CONTROL..... FAKE DEMEANOR.... AND ACTIVE PARTICIPANT. PERIOD
You know who could have checked on the children and stopped the abuse? Kevin. He let this happen and needs to take some responsibility.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
He literally abandoned his children for a whole year, for his own pleasure. This man is the face of hypocrisy
No he didn't you don't know the facts
@@khaIid624 For sure we all don’t know all the facts yet, but during one of his interviews, he told us where he was and what he was doing during that year.
@@juanita5691 I think Kevin was being brainwashed by Jody as much as Ruby. Very sad situation. I’m happy to see he’s trying to make changes so this doesn’t happen again.
@@khaIid624 Watch the videos from the family vlogs. He stood right by while Ruby abused the kids.
That is not true. There is no proof he wilfully left his children in a harmful situation. He was being manipulated, he trusted his wife. Those who have never experienced this level of manipulation, can have any idea of what they might do in similar situation.
Where were you buddy? You are a deadbeat dad- you went an entire year with zero communication with your kids. Don’t blame your bad parenting on others.
Having a grand time in his childless apt.
There is a reason Kevin Franke doesn’t have custody of his minor children.
@@joytoyouandme4593 Are you sure about this?
@@Bird5861tr4 - Last reports state that the two youngest children are in custody of child services. The two older minors are in custody of their adult sister.
So he is blaming the authorities for not contacting him ? Yet he makes no effort to see his children for a year.
They did call he said, but he didn't pick up the phone🤷🏻♀️
@@schewitt1977 he stated the police did not contact him. However, he admitted CPS attempted to contact him multiple times which he stated he IGNORED apparently upon Jodi Hildebrandt’s recommendations. MOST (99% of ALL parents) would have responded to CPS AND CONTACTED HIS CHILDREN in PERSON IMMEDIATELY, NOT CONTINUE TO STAY AWAY FOR A YEAR!
Please, make it happen, that this vile individual also has to go to court!
Not my Father or husband! Strong men who loved their children. They would have kicked Jodi Hildebrand to the curb. He’s so weak it disgusting.
This man is removing himself from all responsibility. I don't understand how he doesn't see the role he played.
He has repeatedly acknowledged having made errors and has expressed his regret publicly several times.
@@kevinhornbuckle And yet he's refusing to point out the religious involvement in all of this, from the way he and his wife treated those kids to the way the religion controls and inflicts this fraudulent "therapy" on the members of its congregation to keep them in line.
When you look at the connections between the college he worked for, the boot camp he sent his son to, Hildebrandt, and the way all of this was so terribly handled from the start, it's very apparent that this "faith" has a lot of culpability here that no one is willing to discuss.
If you replaced their faith with Islam all of this would be considered sinister infiltration of a society to inflict Sharia law, but these people are being given a free pass because they're white and Christian-adjacent.
@@ct5625 he called out extremist religion when speaking to the legislature.
@@thewitchacademic7489 I'm glad to hear he called out extremist religion. That needs to be done for all the fundamentalist versions of the major religions.
@@ct5625Exactly!! He refuses to acknowledge the Mormon Cult aspect of this whole case/family, if not for that factor by ALL adults n this senerio the abuse wouldn't have progressed to the dangerous level it did, n he is still n it I bet .
What his wife and he did to their children began so long before Jody became a part of it.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Nobody contacted me. I didn't answer the phone!
Kevin should also be investigated because before Joddie, he lives in that house with the kids being abused by him and Ruby.
It’s child services fault for not forcing him to answer the phone and be a man.
He is asking for good change when the parent doesn’t answer calls and the door.
This same man had his son sleeping on a beanbag for a year. His boys bed taken away. Wolf in sheeps clothes right
Don't forget removing the bathroom door. When other children were in the home as well. Embarrassing him for liking a girl.
Narcissist ! He's not innocent. What father abandons his kids. Trying to make himself look better
He has acknowledged having made mistakes. He "abandoned" his kids under threat from an unethical licensed professional counselor who lied to him that the separation was temporary.
Is it possible that he was actually also a DV victim tho???
Maybe hes trying to make up for his mistakes? Also he was ordered out of the house.
@@kevinhornbuckle The fact that Hildebrand had the licensing he says he wants for "life coaches" should prove to him that licensing is not a solution.
@@bonnies.d.1121 You have a point. But there is no total solution to unethical practitioners.
This man is not holding any responsibility. He projected it all onto Jodie H and the authorities. Bad vibes.
Kevin was 100% COMPLICIT in the abuse of his children loooong before Ruby met Jodi. What an utter hypocrite. He should never get access to his kids again.
He's trying to remove responsibility from himself. He should not have let himself be pushed out of his own kids' lives. He had rights and didn't use them. He abandoned his kids.
@@salemthorup9536 Not only that but he and his wife Ruby abused their kids long before Ruby hooked up with Jodi in partnership with their ongoing abuse. This guy is a coward and a fraud. He belongs in prison just the same as those two monsters. His “good guy” campaign is a joke.
If parents won't protect their own children, the government is a poor substitute.
OMG, I didn’t realize DCFS was trying to contact him too! He should have at least gone and checked on HIS kids, even if he believed everything Jodi was saying about the government!
Kevin, you wouldn't answer the police as well, your hypocrite.
laurenmay2098, skeptical as I am about him, isn't it fair to assume that the new laws he's advocating would have forced him to answer police and DCYF calls? Jeez, I hope so...at least that from him!
@@bonnies.d.1121 he is a bad father, a very bad one. Period!
@@laurenmay2098
Yeah ... but Bonnie asked about something else, about those proposed laws and what positive effects they would have, if any. What about that?!
Kevin it's also your responsibility to check on your children. I think this is a ploy to get his children back from CPS. Kevin also should have been arrested imo.
He did the same thing to his kids following Ruby so he shouldn’t think he is innocent himself
What a joke this man is to stand up and say anything. He is no better than his wife. Nobody wants to hear anything from him. The absolute nerve of this man
Agreed
Yes, the loopholes in the laws need to be changed at all levels. However, parents have the highest level of responsibility in caring for and protecting their children. Ruby AND Kevin failed their children, equally. The police and DCFS checked on the children more than their own father and I don’t believe his excuses as to why he stayed away. They will forever be traumatized by that decision.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
2:29 The blindness to complain about law enforcement not calling him but in the next breath say he received countless calls from DCFS that he ignored. Lordy mercy.
He is despicable he is as much to blame as his wife before Jodie and after .
Not buying what this man is selling
Me either
I bet he's trying to run for office now 🙄
Boy he talks a lot of rubbish. Trying to hide his guilt by pretending to be pushing for law changes.
Kevin should also be charged for the abuse his kids endured while he was in the house. This is not the fault of the state this was his fault for not stepping up as a Dad.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
You should be in prison Kevin you're just as guilty
He needs jail time too. He was there through the years of ab*** we all WITNESSED on their family channel! He laughed through some of it. It’s gross to listen to him speak like this.
Maybe he should've stuck around instead of moving a thousand miles away. There was abuse going on before he moved out. Don't tell us he didn't know. It wasn't severe like it was at Jodis, but it was still abuse.
I cannot believe he said that if jodi hildebrandt never enter their life, this would have never happen. What about the 8 passengers and the abuse him and Frankie were doing to their children!!
It would have come into the light because eventually, someone was going to listen to Shari. She is the heroine in this sad tale of all around CA.😢
This guy is disgusting. He should be in prison too.
He’s trying to pimp the system to make money. .. run for office .., get a movie deal … a book deal …
dis-f**** gusting ..
You should have spoken up against your own wife...and then also Jodi much MUCH SOONER...even before Jodi was involved, she merely escalated the abuse...
Why couldn't he just say because my church told me to trust her at 3:25. Oh yeah, cult, silly me
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Yep. It's not just Kevin that gets away with this. The cult does too.
Manipulated to not see your kids for over a year? Who can be this manipulated and if so how can you be trusted now? Those kids were let down and brutalized by all of them, imo.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Not one word about his own accountability in this horrifically. He knew JH was NUTS when they let her move in with them. He knew what Jodi taught, and then didn't even check on his kids. He's not a victim.
There are thousands of good LIFE COACHES. Just because Jody and his wife were HORRID doesn't mean all LC's should be punished.
He's pushing the blame off to everyone else.
It would be awesome if he took some personal responsibility for what happened. I do believe he was brainwashed, but the laws he proposed would put him behind bars, too. He did nothing to help the children.
@BethRitterGuth
The family attempted to make them see what they were practicing was wrong. Both he and Ruby cut the family off. I don't understand how these parents didn't put the well-being of their children first. I believe Kevin is suffering from a lack of back-bone.
He is trying to make these changes
@@ReneS8373 Then he should speak about them, even in general, because it would make his rhetoric more believable.
He said having a year away from his children was good for him. So yeah.
He didn't prioritise his children. Too many people divorce their children at the same time they divorce their spouse.
AMEN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
Exactly
Kevin Franke is just as guilty by NOT insisting on visitation & blaming Hildebrand. Ruby Franke is MORE RESPONSIBLE as a parent than ANYTHING HILDEBRAND did!
He's not wrong, but the first and more responsible one that failed and abandoned the kids was him. His young daughter shouldn't be the one doing this he should've. He should be in prison.
Does he take any accountability for anything?
Also the church that referred Jody. These are very small churches in small community areas. Everybody knows everybody. There is no way that people did not know that Jodi was advocating for and committing abu*e. What her niece said proves that to be true.
Well NO .. he doesn't seem to
I agree with him. Authorities dropped the ball many many times simply because the family lived in a nice home and had a nice image.
He however has no excuse for ignoring dcfs calls. He's just as bad as the agencies that failed. He is their FATHER.... HE FAILED THEM.
Unfortunately I dated and lived with a spineless ex Mormon they let the women control them thru their children… I’m disgusted at listening to this baby boy
Were you and your wife not ripe for manipulation? You would have found a different guru if not Jodi. imho
He does have responsibility. He also isn’t wrong about DCFS not doing their job and they should have followed up with the reports of child abuse.
Life coaching does not need to be regulated because they are NOT licensed professionals. There is no place for that in professional therapy. People should not confuse it with therapy. Take advice from friends, family or your bartender, but they are not licensed professionals, period!
He is complicit
Stop blaming them.. and take accountability for all the abuse you let happen previously 🤬🤬🤬
Yup
Jodie didn't have a licence years prior, she had it taken away for breaking patient confidential agreement.
Utah is very weak on child protection. There were ex-law enforcement watching as Utah did nothing and were appalled. Utah give the appearance that children are disposable.
Well, his lawyer and everyone else got him to this since a while AFTER she went away. I'm sure he's learned more since, but he went against his Daughter with his wife, even after she was incarcerated for abusing the H out of All of them .
This from a father who allowed his children from infancy to b filmed for money on TH-cam. He allowed someone to talk him into not seeing his children for over a year? Hypocrite
He's feeble minded at best..
No matter how manipulative a person, J.H., how can I as a father allow not to see my children for 1 year? This is absolutely incomprehensible.
It is not incomprehensible if you know how devious sociopaths are. Jodi is sadistic and had convinced Kevin that the separation was "treatment."
@@nicoleschlink9195 I recommend listening to interviews with other men that were in Jodi’s classes. Her main goal with woman she liked was to push the husband away as much as possible and tear the husband down to nothing.
Well, once he left the home, he should have been able to see things more clearly. I call BS on his excuses.
Formulaic. Not believable. No thank you.
Him and his wife already had question marks above their heads regarding abusing their children before they even met Jodi so obviously still not taking accountability for his own actions
There needs to be a country-wide “Children’s Rights” movement
He also had a responsibility to his kids.
He is acting as if he wasn’t involved.He was up to his neck in it too.He didn’t check up on his kids for months if not years.
Oh, Kevin just SU and don't allow Ruby, JH or anyone from the LDS church near your children , until they decide the opposite. SU!!! NBC what you have to say now...
Btw you're blaming everybody but you. You are responsible, the LDS church is responsible as well. So SU!!. And count your losses
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Feel so terrible about what his children went through.. if only this guy checked on then even once .. sorry but this guy should be in jail
Keep going, Kevin, and keep digging deeper while accepting responsibility. Be ruthless with yourself and live your apology to your children. People will rightfully so question your motives and your sincerity. Just keep owning your part. The crimes against your children injured us all.
The he government doesn’t need to parent our children, he just feels guilty because he didn’t man up to this woman.
He was involved, he lived there too...... He is also guilty.
I find him to have a weak mind. That is not mean. It seems to be a fact.
Religion makes people weak.
Are we just skating over the Mormon church having partial blame for not only sanctioning Jodi as a therapist but also *referring* people to her for therapy?
This guy was pulling the same thing as his wife. For years. She only got caught. Somehow this man was allowed to escape the abuses.
I’m not convinced of Kevin’s innocence… he’s going to have to fight long and hard to convince me of his innocence.. although I will say I dated and lived with a Mormon man boy some men are definitely weak and have no chance
Cannot convince me. The truth is all on tape for all of us to see.