Posted on 01/15/2018 5:09:02 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
PERRIS, Calif. – Two Southern California parents are being held on $9 million bail each after a horrific discovery at a residence in Perris over the weekend, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said Monday.
An investigation began after a 17-year-old girl "escaped" from her home in the 100 block of Muir Woods Road and called 911 early Sunday morning to report that her 12 brothers and sister were being held captive by their parents, according to a sheriff's news release.
She alleged some of her siblings were bound in padlocked chains.
Her call prompted a response from Perris Police Department officers and Riverside County sheriff's deputies, who believed the "slightly emaciated" girl was only 10 years old until she gave them her age.
After interviewing the teen, investigators went to the residence and contacted her parents, identified as 57-year-old David Allen Turpin and 49-year-old Louise Anna Turpin, according to the release.
When investigators checked out the home, they discovered "several children shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings," sheriff's officials said. They added that the parents could not provide a "logical" explanation for why the kids were restrained.
Authorities located what they thought were 12 children, but were stunned to find out that seven of them were adults between the ages of 18 and 29, the release stated. The victims looked to be malnourished and filthy, authorities said.
The 13 victims, whose ages ranged from 2 to 29, were taken to the Perris Station for interviews; the juvenile and adult children were also provided food and drink after telling investigators they were "starving," according to the release.
The six children and seven adults were then transported to different hospitals for treatment. Their conditions were not immediately known.
Both parents were detained while child and adult protective services responded to assist in the investigation. After being interviewed, they were each booked at the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of torture and child endangerment, the release said.
Anyone with information about the investigation is urged to call Master Investigator Tom Salisbury at the Perris Station by calling 951-210-1000, or via email at PerrisStation@RiversideSheriff.org.
Prayers up for those kids. What a nightmare!
You’d be surprised Some of them will break but some will be lifelong friends and will find strength in each other.
No punishment to fit the crime in demo-islamist ruled CA.
This is so, so weird.
Each case like this also gives the lefties a strawman to jump all over homeschoolers. I don’t think they were teaching any academics here. The parents in fact sound outright crazy and will likely end up in mental institutions rather than prison.
My kids claim they’re abused if the Internet is off for 36 seconds.
“There’s literally nothing to eat here!” means, “There’s a full refrigerator and pantry, but it’s not what I feel like right now.”
Names, please. Photos, please. Oh, I get it. Uh huh.
Pure evil....
“No punishment to fit the crime in demo-islamist ruled CA.”
Why would you say that? Your hatred for our state sure is coloring your thinking. Why not show some adult behavior and at least wait until the couple is arraigned and on what charges.
Prayers for the siblings. I hope they can recover from the h*ll their parents put them through.
“With God all things are possible.”
While nobody expects earth to be perfect, for some sad souls it truly stinks. The “why” may not even be understandable till God explains at long last. We do know we have the poor with us, and as churches we should care.
If the parents were together through it all, then Romeo and Juliet likely met when they were 27 and 19 respectively. JMOPO, but she’ll probably be happy to spend the rest of her days in prison if it means being away from him.
Where were the neighbors?...
The oldest is 29????????
WHAT????
Where was the State of CA....if they were born there????
Lots of unanswered questions. As you suggest, half of the horror of this story is that they got away with it for 29 years with no one ever noticing anything amiss.
So the guy reporting wondered how this could happen....he said, “Maybe they were home-schooled and not allowed to go out.” These media people show their true colours all the time.
If all kids are theirs, I think it’s a miracle that they all survived.
i would need more details of this. It sounds like a very one sided story.
It’s also a new development and middle class. So they moved there within two years.
https://www.facebook.com/davidlouise.turpin?lst=100011692657495%3A100001809545334%3A1516059503
Weird as weird can be. Somebody likely sewed all these matching dresses.
I guess...more info will come out........
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