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'Big day for evil': Ruby Franke's journals detailing abuse of her children are released

In one entry the convicted YouTuber wrote that she cut her daughter’s hair off and “doused” her with water in the “dog wash.”

In one entry from July 11, 2023, she wrote that it was a "big day for evil" and described an incident when her son was pushed into water and she held her hand over his nose and mouth. Both women were arrested in August 2023 and pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree aggravated child abuse after police found one of Franke’s sons emaciated with open wounds and bound with duct tape. "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," the Washington County Attorney’s Office said in a case summary.

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