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‘Big Day For Evil’: Ruby Franke Wrote Down Every Horrible Thing She Did To Her 'Demon' Kids

More details about the abuse Ruby Franke’s kids faced at her hands have come to light. More than a month after being sentenced to 4 to 60 years in prison,

In another diary entry from around that time, Ruby said she cut off her daughter’s hair and “doused” her with water in the “dog wash.” She justified her vile behavior to herself by saying it was punishment for the child wanting to break a forced two-day fast. The Washington County Attorney’s office noted in the case summary that Ruby and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, were motivated to “inflict this horrific abuse” on the kids by religious extremism. “The women appeared to fully believe that the abuse they inflicted was necessary to teach the children how to properly repent for imagined ‘sins’ and to cast the evil spirits out of their bodies.”

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