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.
FWIW, he was a $140k/annum engineer circa 2010.
Filed for bankruptcy about a year later.
Maybe they’ve gone through all avenues of finance in the last 7 years and decided it was more efficient to turn their kids over to the state and for them to receive 3 squares and a bed in prison somewhere.
So they shackle the kids, kids call the cops, and let the system proceed.
3 cars in front of the house, so they’ve figured out how to keep some cashflow running.
They don’t appear liberal in nature, just isolated in the middle of suburbia without income.
I’d await the investigation to see where it all pans out.
The 18-29 year old siblings seem strange in this context.
>I can’t see the FB links. Says page does not exist.<
It's still there. Sometimes when a single FB profile is getting overwhelmed with a bunch of hits at the same time, typically when a big story breaks, Facebook can't handle the traffic and a "Page not found"error is displayed.
Okay, thanks!
Thanks for posting; here’s some info on them:
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