Home where 13 kids found records show the homes address is the same as the Sandcastle Day School

[riversedge]

Seems the parents listed their home as a Private school. This whole story is bizarre and horrible.





California couple’s ordinary home held torture chamber


https://apnews.com/62325be8b0d5450bbc5bb4b42ed69afa/California-couple's-ordinary-home-held-torture-chamber

PERRIS, Calif. (AP)

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Sheriff’s deputies said they found 13 children ranging from 2 to 29 years old, some of them chained to furniture, all of them thin and malnourished. The 17-year-old girl who escaped was so tiny that deputies initially mistook her for a 10-year-old..............................................




Neither sheriff’s deputies nor child-welfare officials received a single call over the years about the Turpin home, he said.

The investigation, still in its early stages, has already begun to unravel a bizarre tale of a couple married 32 years who dressed their children alike, kept them away from outsiders and cut most of the boys’ hair in a Prince Valiant-style resembling that of their graying father...............................

..............State Department of Education records show the home’s address is the same as the Sandcastle Day School, where David Turpin is listed as principal. In the 2016-17 school year it had an enrollment of six with one student each in the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th grades.

Fellows told reporters there is no indication any student other than the couple’s children were enrolled there. He said six of those children are under 18.

No state agency regulates or oversees private schools in California, and they are not licensed by the state Education Department. Private school operators are required to file an affidavit with the state annually, listing the number of students, staff members and information about the school’s administrators.

Private schools are also subject to an annual inspection by state fire officials.......................

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. Those poor children

[DURHAM D]

2. So which one of the children is the mother of the 2 year old?

Pretty sure the mother isn't the mother.

Sick sick sick

[CousinIT]

3. "No state agency regulates or oversees private schools..."

Contrary to Republican idiocy, REGULATIONS are necessary. VERY necessary.

[lkinwi]

5. I agree!

Then they send these kids to public school and expect them to pass their standard tests.

[procon]

4. Those kids will be affected by their ordeal for the rest of their lives.

The parents should spend the rest of their lives in prison.

[appleannie1943]

6. Changed to their bunks and tossed a handful of stale bread every day.