PERRIS (California) — Thirteen malnourished siblings, ranging in age from two to 29, were rescued by the police in California from a house where some of them had been chained to beds, and their parents have been charged with torture, officials said on Monday (Jan 15).

Police made the discovery after a 17-year-old girl escaped the house in Perris, about 113km east of Los Angeles, and used a cellular phone she had found in the house to call them, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement released online.

“Deputies located what they believed to be 12 children inside the house, but were shocked to discover that seven of them were actually adults,” the police said in a statement. “The victims appeared to be malnourished and very dirty.”


The girl, who officers had initially thought was about 10 years old, contacted police on Sunday after escaping. The children’s parents, David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Ann Turpin, 49, were arrested and each charged with nine counts of torture and 10 counts of child endangerment. They were ordered to be held on US$9 million (S$11.9 million) bail, police said.


Neighbours said the Turpins and their children rarely emerged from their unkempt home in the new built development of closely spaced single-family houses.

Ms Wendy Martinez, a 41-year-old housewife, said her only contact with the Turpins came as she passed the house at night in October. Four children were installing sod in the yard while the mother watched from the door, and none responded when Ms Martinez said hello.

“They were very, like, afraid,” she said of the children. “Like they had never seen people before.”

Police said six of the couple’s children are minors, while the other seven are over 18, the police said.

The siblings told officers that they were starving, the police said. The police in a statement did not detail the parents’ motive for holding the children hostage, and a police spokesman said he had no further details.

The hostages were found in a neighbourhood of closely spaced one- and two-storey single-family homes.

A Facebook page that appeared to have been created by the parents showed the couple dressed in wedding clothes, surrounded by 10 girls in matching purple plaid dresses and three male children in suits.

California state records list David Turpin as the principal of the Sandcastle Day School, with its address at the Turpin house.

Records show the Turpins filed for bankruptcy in 2011. Ms Nancy Trahan, who works in the Temecula, California, law office that handled the bankruptcy, said the couple were friendly and spoke highly of
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PERRIS (California) — Thirteen malnourished siblings, ranging in age from two to 29, were rescued by the police in California from a house where some of them had been chained to beds, and their parents have been charged with torture, officials said on Monday (Jan 15).

Police made the discovery after a 17-year-old girl escaped the house in Perris, about 113km east of Los Angeles, and used a cellular phone she had found in the house to call them, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement released online.

“Deputies located what they believed to be 12 children inside the house, but were shocked to discover that seven of them were actually adults,” the police said in a statement. “The victims appeared to be malnourished and very dirty.”


The girl, who officers had initially thought was about 10 years old, contacted police on Sunday after escaping. The children’s parents, David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Ann Turpin, 49, were arrested and each charged with nine counts of torture and 10 counts of child endangerment. They were ordered to be held on US$9 million (S$11.9 million) bail, police said.


Neighbours said the Turpins and their children rarely emerged from their unkempt home in the new built development of closely spaced single-family houses.

Ms Wendy Martinez, a 41-year-old housewife, said her only contact with the Turpins came as she passed the house at night in October. Four children were installing sod in the yard while the mother watched from the door, and none responded when Ms Martinez said hello.

“They were very, like, afraid,” she said of the children. “Like they had never seen people before.”

Police said six of the couple’s children are minors, while the other seven are over 18, the police said.

The siblings told officers that they were starving, the police said. The police in a statement did not detail the parents’ motive for holding the children hostage, and a police spokesman said he had no further details.

The hostages were found in a neighbourhood of closely spaced one- and two-storey single-family homes.

A Facebook page that appeared to have been created by the parents showed the couple dressed in wedding clothes, surrounded by 10 girls in matching purple plaid dresses and three male children in suits.

California state records list David Turpin as the principal of the Sandcastle Day School, with its address at the Turpin house.

Records show the Turpins filed for bankruptcy in 2011. Ms Nancy Trahan, who works in the Temecula, California, law office that handled the bankruptcy, said the couple were friendly and spoke highly of
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Lalasticlala

∆ How possible is this? ∆

Even 29 yrs old man was also chained too, maybe their parents na Ghadffi sister oo

I thought it was in Nigeria but since is in trump country everything is possible..