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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
(2,886 posts)brooklynite
(94,597 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)Wow.
Maybe you would be a bigger hit over at Criminal Abuser Underground.
brooklynite
(94,597 posts)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
(67,808 posts)Orrex
(63,215 posts)I'm offended that you thought to post that joke before I did.
Damn you! Damn you!
Aristus
(66,388 posts)you know they've reached uncanny valley territory...
Cattledog
(5,915 posts)Paladin
(28,264 posts)I hope they serve a thousand years in prison for what they did to those children.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)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
(118,295 posts)that such treatment of children is protected by any manner of "respect for religious beliefs"
lunasun
(21,646 posts)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
(51,459 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)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
(24,414 posts)not the one I have any passing familiarity with.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I imagine that person is still childlike.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)If you read the report, when the daughter who escaped was seen, they said she didnt 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.
Im 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
(61,695 posts)NCDem777
(458 posts)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
(118,295 posts)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 206Torture and Section 273a(A)Child Endangerment. Bail was set at $9,000,000.00 each ...
http://nixle.us/9TFYK
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)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
(118,295 posts)and co-ed institution. There were six students enrolled one each in the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 12th grades.
David Turpins 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
(118,295 posts)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
(118,295 posts)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
(118,295 posts)Pentecostal Christianity, but that they didnt 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
(27,045 posts)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.
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MLAA
(17,298 posts)However, in this case for these fine Christian parents Im good with an eye for an eye. Chain them to a bed for the rest of their lives.
tblue37
(65,403 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,491 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)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
(16,903 posts)So its ok to starve your kids??!!? Throw away the key, they will not fare well in jail, child abusers rarely do.