Chilling new documentary about child abuser Jodi Hildebrandt portrays her shocking methods of control

A chilling caller documentary is acceptable to uncover however disgraced therapist Jodi Hilderbrandt would run earlier she was enactment down bars, with antheral contributors claiming that she would crook their wives against them and assistance laic retired disgusting traps. 

Convicted kid abuser Hilderbrandt, 55, was sentenced to service betwixt 4 and 30 years successful situation connected February 20, 2024, alongside fellow convicted kid abuser Ruby Franke. 

But earlier she formed an confederation with mommy vlogger Franke, she served arsenic the manager of LifeStar Utah County, a franchisee of a nationalist institution based successful Utah, specializing successful the psychiatric and intelligence attraction of pornography and enactment addiction.

Investigation Discovery's caller documentary The Curious Case Of... Jodi Hildebrandt unpacks however she would weaponize Mormon teachings against her clients to yet thrust a wedge betwixt couples. 

More often than not, she would thin into the thought that each intersexual acts are sinful and akin to murder. 

According to her erstwhile clients, Hildebrandt would abstracted her couples by sex and person Zoom meetings erstwhile a week for the women and the men. 

Her sessions chiefly related to enactment and masturbation. 

Adam Steed was a erstwhile lawsuit of Hildebrandt and, on with his ex-wife, sought her services aft receiving a colony having been subjected to intersexual maltreatment arsenic a child.

He was a whistleblower and had antecedently spoken up astir being a unfortunate of kid maltreatment astatine the Mormon church's Idaho Boy Scout program.

Adam's beingness was turned upside down erstwhile his woman became obsessed with Hildebrandt's teachings and ended up seeking her support 'for everything she did.'

'She mislaid the quality to cognize for herself if thing was right, it was similar a cause for her,' helium claimed. 

Then 1 night, his woman acceptable up a sickening trap.  

Recalling the incident, helium said: 'My woman asked maine to bathe our daughter, and this was astatine a constituent wherever Jodi had taken distant from america the quality to kiss, the quality to beryllium physical, the quality to person sex, the quality to speech to each other, and she was precise disciplined connected this.

'You tin ideate my daze erstwhile I'm successful the bathtub with our small babe and she comes into the bath successful lingerie and acted truly sexy and it started to springiness maine an erection, truthful I was laughing with her, and I asked her to instrumentality the babe retired of the tub.'

He continued: 'So she took the babe out, presumably to travel backmost successful and hop successful the tub and person enactment with me, and I was reasoning she was becoming her aged comic aforesaid again, and past she looked astatine my backstage parts disgusted and conscionable walked off.'

Following the incident, Adam's woman filed for divorcement and served him with an bid of protection, and helium mislaid custody of his children.

'She took the kids and disappeared, and I had nary thought wherever they were.

'When the protective bid came out, she said "my hubby is simply a unfortunate of intersexual maltreatment and truthful helium doesn't recognize steadfast boundaries. He had to telephone maine to get the babe retired of the tub due to the fact that helium was having an erection."

'My biggest fearfulness being a unfortunate of intersexual maltreatment was to beryllium accused of being a intersexual abuser.'

Upon reflection, Adam believes the full bath incidental was a trap orchestrated by his ex woman and Hilderbrandt to marque him look similar an unfit father.

Adam believes helium was a unfortunate of Hildebrandt - and he's not unsocial successful feeling that way. Daniel Choate was besides a erstwhile lawsuit and was introduced to the disgraced therapist successful 2018.

He and his past woman sought retired her assistance aft helium confessed that helium would occasionally look astatine pornography, which his spouse believed was akin to having an affair.

Shortly into their therapy sessions, however, Daniel's woman banned him from sleeping successful their marital furniture and adjacent acceptable times that helium could participate her country successful the greeting and evening.

'If I didn't abide by these rules, she fto maine cognize that she was going to instrumentality the kids and leave,' helium said.

'After a week of appeasing her, I rebelled and I went to spell and slumber successful the furniture 1 night, truthful she said you person to get retired of the location oregon I'm leaving.

'I reasoned with her and said, "ok I'll spell to the impermanent house," and she accepted that astatine the time.'

Then 1 day, Daniel's satellite came crashing down.

'My ex-wife texted my sister-in-law and she claimed that I had done thing similar rape to her, which arsenic acold arsenic I'm acrophobic is an allegation of rape.

'She claimed that I had cheated connected her successful the marriage, which was not true. She besides claimed that I made immoderate benignant of intersexual comments astir our daughter.'

In tears, helium added: 'I would ne'er wounded my daughter.'

Although unrelated to her therapy, connected August 30, 2023, Hildebrandt was arrested successful Washington County, Utah, and charged with six counts of aggravated kid abuse of 2 of Franke's children.

She plead blameworthy to 4 counts of aggravated kid maltreatment and was aboriginal sentenced to 4 presumption of 1 to 15 years consecutively, the maximum for each number nether Utah law.

In February 2024, Franke was sentenced to service betwixt 4 and 60 years successful prison. The nonstop word is to beryllium decided by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole.

Crime country photos, doorbell videos, and interrogation tapes showed her children with gruesome injuries aft being tied up, beaten and starved.

Franke's estranged husband, Kevin, had not seen the children for much than a twelvemonth and was not charged with immoderate crime.

During Franke's trial, prosecutors played melodramatic doorbell camera footage that showed the disturbing infinitesimal her lad arrived astatine a neighbor's location successful shackles asking for assistance and directions to the police.

In the video, the emaciated and severely bruised 12-year-old lad tentatively approached his neighbors connected their structure aft managing to flight the torture of his ma via a window.

The kid had conscionable escaped from Hildebrandt's home, investigators said.

The Curious Case Of... Jodi Hildebrandt premieres Monday, February 10 astatine 10/9c connected ID.