13 siblings 'held captive' by parents inPerris, Ca: 'Deeply religious' couple arrested on torture c

[Ilsa]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/16/thirteen-siblings-found-chained-starving-california-home-say/


Thirteen siblings 'held captive' by parents in Perris, California: 'Deeply religious' couple arrested on torture charges


California couple was charged with torture and child endangerment on Tuesday after their 13 children were discovered in an emaciated and filthy state, some shackled to their beds.

David Turpin, 57, and his wife Louise, 49, are being held at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, unable to provide the $9 million bail each set by the judge.

On Thursday the couple will appear in court in Riverside.

Police were alerted when one of their children, a 17-year-old girl, escaped on Sunday and managed to raise the alarm.

She was so emaciated police thought she was only 10.


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[wcmagumba]

1. Crazy, effing freaks...nt

[brooklynite]

12. Not if their beliefs are sincerely held.......

[Stinky The Clown]

15. So starving and torturing kids is okay with you if the parents sincerely hold that view?

Wow.

Maybe you would be a bigger hit over at Criminal Abuser Underground.

[brooklynite]

16. sigh...

I'm just rehashing the standard line that the Religious Right uses.

I don't mark my sarcasm as such because I assume my audience can see it for what it is...

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Bye

[Orrex]

33. That is deeply offensive

I'm offended that you thought to post that joke before I did.


Damn you! Damn you!

[Aristus]

2. When they dress a football stadium-sized brood all alike,

you know they've reached uncanny valley territory...

[Cattledog]

3. Religious nuts.

[Paladin]

4. There's no pit in hell hot enough for those "religious" parents.

I hope they serve a thousand years in prison for what they did to those children.

[hatrack]

5. But we must RESPECT their beliefs, because putative vaporous deity . . .

[LanternWaste]

8. I imagine someone, somewhere, in some little cave is arguing that point this instance

I imagine someone, somewhere, hiding in some little cave is arguing that very point this instance. But if they are, they're hiding really well behind vaporous state borders living under putative laws.

Behold them! but only after identifying them...

Turns out, some imaginary beliefs are given a much greater reality than other imaginary beliefs. Crazy indeed when we're compelled to make the distinction.

[struggle4progress]

10. Since the parents have been arrested, Californians do not appear to consider

that such treatment of children is protected by any manner of "respect for religious beliefs"

[lunasun]

6. When you have a young baby it's a good time to have a big splash and renew your vows for a 3rd

time in Las Vegas . Just hand the baby off to one of the girls. Bet those sickos kept those adult women in chains to be a rotating 24 hour daycare for their creepy growing family that supposedly god told them to have

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Article doesn't say what God they worship.

[struggle4progress]

24. The man's parents say the couple is Pentecostal but don't belong to a local church

and seem to have no friends in the community; their view is that this was a nice family and they couldn't see anything wrong the last time they visited

But the woman's sister says something was obviously wrong; she and her parents were never allowqed to visit

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. What "God" would allow this?

not the one I have any passing familiarity with.

[Ilsa]

9. Ages 2 to 29. I wonder what the 29 year is like?

I imagine that person is still childlike.

[Pachamama]

11. She is in the picture - the one holding the baby

If you read the report, when the daughter who escaped was seen, they said she didn’t look her age. They all were malnourished and stunted in growth. Some shackled to their beds.

More news will be coming as this is investigated.

I’m starting to wonder if the kids are the ones they claim to be or that they were conceived and delivered by the mother.

This is so disturbing

[Ilsa]

13. They said a 17 year old escaped, but she looks like a ten year old. nt

[NCDem777]

14. Bring back the death penalty

and hang these parents in the town square.

And if they go to a conventional church, give every family in that church an inspection.

[struggle4progress]

17. Statement from Riverside County Sheriff's Department

Early Sunday morning on January 14, 2018, a 17-year old juvenile escaped from her residence .. and managed to call 911 ... The teenager claimed her 12 brothers and sisters were being held captive inside the residence by her parents ...

... investigation revealed several children shackled to their beds .. but the parents were unable to immediately provide a logical reason why their children were restrained in that manner. Deputies located what they believed to be 12 children inside the house, but were shocked to discover that 7 of them were actually adults, ranging in age from 18 to 29 ...

The six children were eventually transported to the Riverside University Hospital System ... The seven adult children were transported to Corona Regional Medical Center ...

Both parents were ... booked for violations of California Penal Code Section 206–Torture and Section 273a(A)–Child Endangerment. Bail was set at $9,000,000.00 each ...

http://nixle.us/9TFYK

[struggle4progress]

19. ... State records show the family home has the same address as Sandcastle Day School,

where David Turpin is listed as principal. In the 2016-17 school year it had an enrollment of six ...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/01/15/california-teen-leads-deputies-parents-house-horrors/aqK3vudmItCbuynALpzfhP/story.html

[struggle4progress]

20. ... During the last school year, the school was listed in state records as a non-religious

and co-ed institution. There were six students enrolled — one each in the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th grades.

David Turpin’s parents .. told ABC News .. their grandchildren are home-schooled, and that they had not seen their son and daughter-in-law in four or five years.

Public records indicate the couple have lived at the address for several years and lived in Texas for many years before coming to California. They declared bankruptcy twice, public records show ...

Kimberly Milligan .. who lives across the street, said ... the family struck her as strange ... And she often wondered why, if there were so many children in the house, they never came out to play ...

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-perris-children-shackled-20180115-story.html

[struggle4progress]

21. ... David Turpin's parents .. told ABC News ... their son and daughter-in-law .. are religious

and kept having children because "God called on them."

The grandparents said that the children are home-schooled, made to memorize long scriptures in the Bible. Some of the children, the grandparents told ABC News, have tried to memorize the entire book ...

https://www.hudsonvalley360.com/article/13-siblings-some-shackled-and-malnourished-rescued-california-house-police-say?wallit_nosession=1

[struggle4progress]

22. ... Elizabeth Jane Flores .. from Tennessee, said she has not seen her sister Louise Anna Turpin

for 19 years and knew something was "not right" ...

"My parents booked several flights to go see them but when they got there they wouldn't tell them where to go and my parents left crying every time.

"They died before they got to see them again."

Captain Fellows said he currently has "no information regarding a religious association", after grandparents James and Betty Turpin described their son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren as a "good Christian family" ...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sister-mum-california-children-captive-11863279

[struggle4progress]

23. ... James and Betty Turpin .. said that their son and daughter-in-law ... practiced

Pentecostal Christianity, but that they didn’t belong to a local church ...

... neighbor Andria Valdez joked that they reminded her of the Cullen vampire family, from the fictional "Twilight" .. series.

"They only came out at night," Valdez explained. "They were really, really pale" ...

http://www.crimeonline.com/2018/01/16/house-of-horrors-update-jailed-parents-accused-of-starving-abusing-13-kids-reportedly-said-it-was-gods-will-to-have-so-many-children/

[kskiska]

25. I remember a case here in SC a number of years ago

A good Christian family, with a history of taking in foster children. The father was awarded a Father of the Year award by the state. Then he was arrested for brutally discipling the children by beating them, all in accordance with the Bible, of course.

[MLAA]

28. I normally would not refer to the Bible for judicial guidance...

However, in this case for these fine Christian parents I’m good with an eye for an eye. Chain them to a bed for the rest of their lives.

[tblue37]

29. Quiverfull. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

30. What possible "religion" condones this??

[struggle4progress]

31. Maybe the cult of the Blessed Saint Elvis of Presley?

... David and Louise Turpin appeared to have had marriage-renewal ceremonies at least three times, in 2011, 2013 and 2015, at an Elvis Presley-themed chapel in Las Vegas, according to the chapel's YouTube page. One video shows the couple exchanging renewal vows in front of an Elvis impersonator.

Another video showed 10 female children in matching purple plaid dresses walking down the aisle ahead of Louise towards David, who waited anxiously at the altar with two male children in suits.

A third male child dressed in a suit appeared later in the video during various dance performances with the Elvis impersonator and the family.

An Elvis Chapel representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment ...

Siblings Being Treated At Hospital
Reuters | Updated: January 17, 2018 05:33 IST

[secondwind]

32. Mom and Dad look very well fed to me.

So it’s ok to starve your kids??!!? Throw away the key, they will not fare well in jail, child abusers rarely do.