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Jodi Hildebrandt

American counselor and child abuser (born 1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Jodi Nan Hildebrandt is an American former counselor and YouTuber who was convicted of child abuse in 2023. On August 30, 2023, Hildebrandt and her business partner Ruby Franke were arrested in Washington County, Utah, and charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse of two of Franke's children. Hildebrandt pleaded guilty to four counts, and was sentenced to between four and 30 years in prison on February 20, 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jodi Hildebrandt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.