Trigger Warning: This article contains details of child abuse that may be disturbing to some.
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“I was just wondering if you could do two favors?” the childasked. “If you could take me to the nearest police station. Well, actually, just one [favor] is fine.”
“What’s going on?” the man asked the boy.
While a woman from the house emerged and reassured the child, the man called the police and informed them about an “emaciated” child with “tape around his legs,” who was “hungry and thirsty” and asking for help.
The abuse came to light after Jodi’s malnourished son escaped from Jodi’s house and begged his neighbor for help
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“The officers responded to Ms. Hildebrandt’s home, placed her under arrest, and conducted a search of her sizable property where they found Ms. Franke’s 9-year-old daughter, petrified and hiding in a closet,” the county attorney’s officesaidin a statement about the newly released evidence.
“Big day for evil,” she titled a diary entry from July 2023. It was the same day she wrote about holding her son’s head underwater and blocking his nose and mouth.
“I haven’t seen them for over a year,” Kevin told the police about his children, appearing visibly upset.
Kevin cried in front of officers after they revealed that his son was found malnourished and duct-taped after running to a neighbor’s house for help.
“I love my wife,” he said during the same interview and didn’t mention anything that would incriminate her.
However, about two weeks later, Kevin once again showed up and told the police that he no longer defended his wife. During the second interview, he said he had an “in-home separation” from his wife at one point, and Jodi was living with them at the time.
“Every week was just hell, psychological hell, and Jodi was running it,” Kevin said.
Since the abuse came to light, Kevin filed for divorce and is seeking custody of his four youngest children, who were placed under state custody.
“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,” Eric said.
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