Newly-released body cam shows Ruby Franke, Jodi Hildebrandt led away in handcuffs

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Hours of previously unseen police body-worn camera footage were released Friday when the Washington County, Utah. Attorney's office released a load of evidence from the Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt child abuse case.

One such video showed the moments the two women were led away from Hildebrandt's $5 million home in Ivins City as authorities were conducting a search of the property.

One of Franke's children had been found inside, emaciated and injured, according to court documents, after her brother fled to a neighbor's home earlier that day to ask for food and water.

Surveillance video of the boy at the neighbor's house showed him with remnants of duct tape around his ankles as he rang the doorbell. When police found his sister in a closet of Hildebrandt's house, it took them four hours to convince her they were there to help, with two Santa Clara-Ivins Fire & Rescue EMTs eventually convincing her to leave the closet.

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Both women were arrested and taken to a police station, where they both requested attorneys be present.

Franke was not at the house when police first arrived, though she returned while the search was underway.

FULL COVERAGE: Ruby Franke & Jodi Hildebrandt felony child abuse case

They were later booked into Purgatory Correctional Facility, and both eventually pleaded guilty to multiple counts of second-degree felony aggravated child abuse.

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