2 Years After Escape, Secrets Emerge on How Turpin Kids Survived

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• Perris Foster Family Who Took in Rescued Turpin Girls is Accused of Abusing Them
• What happened to the Turpin family?
• MORE: House where 12 children allegedly tortured by parents sells for $310,000
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Responding officers initially thought the girl was a child because she was so emaciated, according to the investigators. When police entered the house — which became known as the "house of horrors — they found children ranging in age from 2 to 29 being held in "dark and foul-smelling surroundings," investigators said. The seven adult children were living together and attending school in February when their parents pleaded guilty.

Perris Foster Family Who Took in Rescued Turpin Girls is Accused of Abusing Them

For residents and their supporters, the deal was proof that more unhoused people should organize — not rely on government and nonprofits to get them off the streets. The gates to a former 1916 Mediterranean estate that once belonged to lumber magnate Charles Cobb masked as the entrance to Morningside Cemetery in the 1979 supernatural thriller, Phantasm. After Cobb’s death in 1939, the estate went through a succession of different owners until it was finally purchased by the Marx Brothers. They demolished the residence in 1959, but left the entrance gates unaltered. Today the 107-acre site, which is reportedly haunted, serves as a popular hiking area.

What happened to the Turpin family?

Some of the 13 children held captive for years in a horrific child abuse case gave emotional statements in court as their parents were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday. The "house of horrors" case shocked the country in January 2018 after a 17-year-old girl jumped out a window from the filthy home where she lived in isolation with her parents and 12 siblings. The California “house of horrors” parents who abused and tortured 12 of their 13 children were sentenced to life in prison Friday with the possibility of parole after 25 years. The parents pleaded guilty to 14 counts each of torture, dependent adult abuse, child endangerment and false imprisonment in 2019. On Feb. 22, 2019, both David and Louise pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts including cruelty to an adult dependent, child cruelty, torture and false imprisonment. They were sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 22 years.

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An attorney for the tortured Turpin siblings said that life outside their parents’ “House of Horrors” is “impossible” for some of them to navigate. She told the dispatcher that she and her siblings desperately needed help. They were beaten, starved and often shackled to furniture for months at a time. The Turpins' 17-year-old daughter was able to escape the filthy home in a Perris, about 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles, in January 2018. She jumped out of a window and used a cell phone to alert authorities to the family's horrid living conditions. In Feb. 2019, David and Louise Turpin pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including torture.

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This story, featuring PEOPLE's exclusive interview with Jordan Turpin, was originally published on July 27, 2022. After being in the hospital, Jordan said the first place she went to was a park with two of her sisters. When rescued, all of the children except for the youngest, a toddler, were severely malnourished, prosecutors said. Jennifer said they would stop by once a week to drop off groceries, but it was never enough food to feed everyone, and sometimes they would skip a week. Their new house eventually became filthy, Jennifer Turpin said, covered in mold, dirt and trash.

When police officers entered the Turpin family’s home, they found the children there so malnourished that they couldn’t even tell that one of the victims was actually a 29-year-old woman when they saved her. She was the eldest of the Turpin kids but was so underfed and unwell that her muscle growth had stagnated and she clocked in at a mere 82 pounds. Some of the children were so removed from the world that they didn’t know what medicine or police were when they were finally released from their confinement.

The California Department of Social Services tells TODAY.com through a spokesperson that it cannot comment on specific cases. The couple pleaded guilty in Riverside County Superior Court in February to torture and other abuse and neglect so severe it stunted their children's growth, led to muscle wasting and left two of the girls unable to bear children. "But I love design and decorating, and I'm a very organized person."

If a child colored outside of the lines, Jennifer Turpin said their mother might pull their hair or throw them across the room. One time, Jennifer said one of her siblings was caught in their mother’s bedroom, and their mother threw her and then pushed the child down the stairs. 13 children were held captive by their parents in a survival story like you’ve never seen. Jordan and her 13-year-old sister escaped the house together by crawling out a window in January 2018, but the younger girl went back home after she got scared.

He and other officials told Sawyer and ABC News correspondent David Scott about the shocking challenges the Turpin children have faced since their rescue. Hestrin notified the Turpin children that they would not, in fact, have to testify. “It was a very good day for them to be all together,” Hestrin added. Prosecutors described how thoroughly the Turpin children were traumatized and that their cognitive impairment and nerve damage will likely affect them for the rest of their lives. When Louise’s father retired in 2012, he wanted to come to visit her, but Louise told him not to.

There she attempted to find an apartment and a job, but with her limited education, she said she struggled to fill out an application. She said she worried about her siblings, and after one night away, she returned to her family. In 2007, when Jennifer Turpin was about 18 years old, she said their parents moved 10 children into a trailer deeper into their Texas property and further from sight. When Jennifer, the eldest Turpin child, was an infant, she said she and her parents lived in a nice neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas.

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