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Jodi Hildebrandt's niece Jessi is speaking out about the torture they allegedly endured at the hands of Jodi in a new docuseries Ruby & Jodi: A Cult of Sin and Influence

Jodi and her business partner, Ruby Franke, were sentenced to prison on four convictions of child abuse, PEOPLE reported last year, and were sentenced to serve between four and 30 years in prison

“The idea that she could somehow get herself out of this is terrifying to me,” Jessi says

Jessi Hildebrandt was on a family trip to Utah celebrating their grandparents' wedding anniversary when the then-16-year-old got into a fight with their mom over washing dishes.

“I was just a 16-year-old bratty teenager,” Jessi, now 32, tells PEOPLE. Jessi, who uses they/them pronouns, says they refused to wash the dishes,

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