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13 victims, ages 2 to 29, kept shackled by parents

Travis said:
I tend to be anti-homeschooling principally because it is a way for right wingers to keep their kids from learning facts and therefore live a life of nonstop right wing propaganda.
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This is why I am not concerned if it gets ended as a right in the US!!!!!!!
 
Cars stolen from Turpin parents who are accused of abusing their 13 children

Desert Sun said:
While David and Louise Turpin sit in jail awaiting life in prison if convicted of abusing their 13 children, two different suspects took a ride in the family’s vehicles this week...
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https://www.desertsun.com/story/new...arents-who-abused-their-13-children/345386002


'House of Horrors' Adult Children Are Learning to Play Guitar, Including Tom Petty and John Denver

People Magazine said:
In the month since being rescued by California authorities from the “House of Horrors” they’d been living in, the seven adult Turpin siblings have made great strides in their ongoing recovery — and some are even learning to play guitar, a hospital official tells PEOPLE...

At this point, some of the Turpin siblings can play John Denver and Tom Petty songs on the donated acoustic guitars, according to Uffer. The siblings have even engaged in a sing-along...
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http://people.com/crime/house-of-horrors-adult-children-play-guitar-tom-petty-john-denver


Turpin abuse case prompts state bill to tighten regulation of home schools

Los Angeles Times said:
California lawmakers are pushing to increase regulation of home schools after a dozen siblings were discovered locked in a dirty, dark house in Riverside County. The house in Perris had been registered as a private school — with the cheery name of Sandcastle Day School...

...The only way to guess which private schools actually are home schools is to look for those with very small numbers of students. No one in the state Department of Education, county or local school district has any legal responsibility to check on the conditions of these home schools or assess the students' academic performance. And while private schools are required to get annual fire inspections, this regulation has never been broadly applied to home schools...
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http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-edu-homeschooling-legislation-20180216-story.html
 
Other news: About $500,000 cash has been raised for the children through various fundraising efforts.

Next court hearing for the parents is February 23.
 
CNN said:
Today, prosecutors and defense lawyers are expected to discuss, among other things, discovery and a date for a preliminary hearing. In addition, an amended complaint is to be filed...
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/us/turpins-child-torture-case/index.html


CBS News said:
If it does go to trial, the Riverside County district attorney reportedly says the siblings would testify...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/califo...speak-out-recovery-david-turpin-louise-turpin
 
Here's a new claim...

ABC News said:
Some of the victims had never had shoes -- "things we take for granted," Corona Mayor Karen Spiegel said, recounting how when one boy was given his first shoes, they were too tight, but he wouldn't relinquish them until a bigger pair arrived because he was scared he would never get shoes back.
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Hmmm. They are all wearing shoes in Las Vegas and at Disneyland.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/california...-13-children-captive-return/story?id=53301808
 
Despite the aunt's suggestion that the family's decline may have started in the last 10 years...

William Parcher said:
A sister wonders if booze and gambling wrecked the mother.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...ouise-David-drinking-gambling-mid-life-crisis
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... the eldest daughter showed possible signs of neglect *20+ years ago*:

William Parcher said:
At least one of them attended regular school back when they lived in Texas...
Turpin daughter was bullied for being the 'cootie kid.' Now one classmate feels overwhelming guilt
https://www.desertsun.com/story/new...classmate-feels-overwhelming-guilt/1061590001
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I have experience as the parent of a "cootie kid." My son has mental health issues. He's now in his 20's and, for him, attending to his personal hygiene is about as appealing as swallowing razor blades. But when he was young, he regularly bathed, brushed his teeth, and wore clean clothes because, as his parents, we ensured he did even though he fought with us about it literally every single day. My son's hygiene didn't start to become a problem until his mid-teens when he (and his threats of violence) grew large enough that we had to start being more selective about which hills we were willing to die on each day--and how much emotional impact those battles were having on our other kids.

The daughter in this case was about 8. At that age, and with a child who is high-functioning enough to attend school, hygiene is the parents' responsibility. Despite any suggestion by the (apparently oblivious) extended family, the evidence shows that the abuse/neglect wasn't recent. It's seems likely that it's been going on for >20 years.
 
Turpin parents re-charged with torture, face new abuse charges, plead not guilty again

Desert Sun said:
Prosecutors re-filed charges against a pair of Perris parents who are accused of torturing their 13 children through years of starvation and abuse on Friday, then both suspects re-entered not guilty pleas to all charges.

However, the new filing did not dramatically change the stakes against the Turpins, who are still facing life in prison for multiple counts of torture and other felonies, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.

Hall said prosecutors have added three counts of felony child abuse against both suspects and one new account of assault against Louise Turpin.

The Turpin case is now scheduled for a preliminary hearing – which should reveal new details about the case – on May 14. However, defense attorneys said they were skeptical they would be prepared to proceed on that date, considering the large amount of evidence in the case.

Other court records revealed some small progression in the Turpin prosecution.

First, subpoenaed documents, which are not public, have been turned over to the court from at least two sources – Mt. San Jacinto College, where the Turpin’s oldest son attended some classes, and Kaiser Permanente, which appears to have kept medical records on the Turpin siblings.

Second, Louise Turpin’s attorney, Jeff Moore, filed a sealed motion earlier this week, but the contents are unknown. During the hearing on Friday, The Press-Enterprise newspaper delivered a letter to the judge, arguing there was no justification for sealing the motion in a public prosecution...
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https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2018/02/23/turpin-torture-court-hearing/367441002
 
New York Daily News said:
The parents-from-hell appeared in a Riverside, Calif., courtroom and pleaded not guilty to three new charges of child abuse each.

Louise Turpin, 49, also was charged with one felony count of assault.

Prosecutors allege Louise assaulted one of the couple's daughters on or after Jan. 15, 2015, by a means "likely to produce great bodily injury." The Turpins were ordered back to court March 23 and have a preliminary hearing set for May 14.

The same daughter — identified only as Jor T. in the new complaint — was listed in prior court paperwork as the victim of a lewd act allegedly committed by David Turpin, 56, between November 2012 and November 2013, when the girl was younger than 14.

In court, David's defense lawyer David Macher expressed concern he might not be ready by mid-May to cross-examine the witnesses called by prosecutors for the preliminary hearing.

Prosecutors then told the judge they planned to conduct the hearing under Proposition 115, meaning they would focus on testimony from investigators, not the kids.

“It streamlines the process, where you don’t have to bring victims in to testify. It’s primarily law enforcement who testify,” Hall told the Daily News...
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...l-slammed-new-abuse-charges-article-1.3837517
 
Turpin home has become a tourist attraction six weeks after their children were rescued

Desert Sun said:
Kimberly Milligan lives across the street from a crime scene that's gained notoriety around the world, and not a week goes by without lookie-loos pulling over to snap photos and peek through the windows of the Perris home where 13 malnourished siblings were found imprisoned by their parents.

If they aren't traipsing across the lawn to take selfies, they're hanging out by a front doorstep shrine, where people have left notes, balloons and flowers for the home's former occupants, the Turpin family.

On one occasion, Milligan said, someone even asked her to take a photo of them standing in front of the now vacant home on Muir Woods Road as they tried to strike a serious pose.

The constant stream of visitors has plagued the community since David and Louise Turpin were arrested on multiple torture and abuse charges on January 14...
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https://www.desertsun.com/story/new...t-attraction-after-children-rescued/374545002
 
Daughter was posting videos on YouTube...

Teen Who Escaped Turpin Home Posted Videos Under Alias

ABC7 News said:
Video shows a first look inside the Turpin family home in Perris, revealed by the 17-year-old daughter who escaped and alerted police about the harsh living conditions.

The teen found a way to post a series of videos on YouTube, singing what seems to be her own songs and describing life at home.

"You blame me for everything, you blame me in every way, you blame me for what they say, what they say," the song goes.

The 17-year-old apparently posted several videos under an alias. Her most recent post was just seven days before police say she broke free and sent authorities to the Perris home where her siblings were being held.

She also posted video of two family dogs, in what appears to be her bedroom...
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http://abc7.com/teen-who-escaped-turpin-home-posted-videos-under-alias/3181135
 
Newsweek said:
An Instagram account belonging to the girl was also found, featuring mainly selfies and pictures of pop star Justin Bieber.
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Now we learn she was doing Instagram and her YouTube clips were posted "frequently". This is really quite different than the narrative given in the media from the investigators. The social connection (via Internet) and technical capability is unexpected after reading the descriptions in the press.

http://www.newsweek.com/glimpse-house-horrors-revealed-one-13-tortured-siblings-youtube-found-833698
 
William Parcher said:
The social connection (via Internet) and technical capability is unexpected after reading the descriptions in the press.
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It isn't if they were surreptitious. The same inactive phone she used to call police, plus neighbor's wifi, solves this alleged problem. Evidently the videos are all of her, don't show any of the other people in this house, and DO show in some cases the squalor state of her room.

The children's gross malnourishment has already been verified by a third party (the hospital where they had to be treated), so there's no evidence suggesting that really anything the authorities have announced so far regarding the case has been exaggerated.
 
Checkmite said:
It isn't if they were surreptitious. The same inactive phone she used to call police, plus neighbor's wifi, solves this alleged problem. Evidently the videos are all of her, don't show any of the other people in this house, and DO show in some cases the squalor state of her room.
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I'm unfamiliar with any reports about her using a neighbor's wifi. Are you imagining or speculating that? I don't understand why she couldn't be using an Internet connection within the house, such as their own house wifi or cellular connection. She could be doing her videos with a laptop or tablet or desktop. Whatever it is, she is experienced with using YouTube and Instagram and that whole realm as well as the electronic devices themselves. She's into Justin Bieber. She might spend lots of time surfing around the web. Her siblings might do the same.

You mention squalor, but I just see a pile of clothes which is totally typical in the bedroom of a teenage girl. It's possible that those are not her clothes.

The children's gross malnourishment has already been verified by a third party (the hospital where they had to be treated), so there's no evidence suggesting that really anything the authorities have announced so far regarding the case has been exaggerated.
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Of course you already know that I disagree about the misrepresentation and exaggeration found in the press articles which seem to have come from investigators.

Some of the children didn't know what a police officer is? Tell us more about that because I have skepticism.

Some of the children had never owned a pair of shoes? Tell us more about that because I have skepticism.

The children were forced to sleep during the daytime and were awake all night? Tell us more about that because I have skepticism.

It just goes on and on like that.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47991829

A California couple's children have forgiven them for years of torture and starvation as the parents were sentenced to life in prison.

David and Louise Turpin's children told a court they still love their mother and father despite all the abuse.

They are expected to serve the rest of their lives behind bars, unless granted parole in 25 years.
 
William Parcher said:
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Of course you already know that I disagree about the misrepresentation and exaggeration found in the press articles which seem to have come from investigators.

Some of the children didn't know what a police officer is? Tell us more about that because I have skepticism.

Some of the children had never owned a pair of shoes? Tell us more about that because I have skepticism.

The children were forced to sleep during the daytime and were awake all night? Tell us more about that because I have skepticism.

It just goes on and on like that.
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The parents have now been convicted of numerous charges and sentenced to life in prison. Do you now wanna claim that this is a miscarriage of justice?
A Perris couple who for years tortured, abused and imprisoned their children, starving them and at times chaining them to their beds, were sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in prison.

“I cannot describe in words what we went through growing up. Sometimes I still have nightmares of things that have happened,” one of the victims told the court before the sentencing. “But that is the past and this is now. I love my parents and have forgiven them for a lot of the things that they did to us.”

David and Louise Turpin, who are the parents of 13 children, each pleaded guilty to 14 felony charges in February, including one count of torture, four of false imprisonment, six of cruelty to adult dependents and three of willful child cruelty.
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https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-turpin-sentencing-20190419-story.html
 
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