'House of horrors': California couple sentenced to life in prison for torturing their 13 children

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Law enforcement uncovered a pattern of startling and violent mistreatment, as the children recounted to them years of emotional, physical and sexual abuse

For years, David and Louise Turpin abused 12 of their 13 children, starving them, hitting them, depriving them of sleep and shackling them to furniture — torture that moved one of their daughters to tell a courtroom, “My parents took my whole life from me.”

Their daughter, speaking publicly for the first time, continued through tears: “Now, I’m taking my life back.” They were arrested in January 2018 after one of their children — a 17-year-old girl — escaped from the family’s home by climbing out a window, then called 911. In her 911 call, the 17-year-old said she doesn’t know much about her mother. “She doesn’t take care of us … They only chain us up if we do something wrong. My sisters, they wake up crying,” she said, CBS Los Angeles reported.

 

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