California couple sentenced for abusing their children
David and Louise Turpin have each been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after they pleaded guilty to holding captive and torturing their children for years in their California home.
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Turpin parents plead guilty to multiple charges, including torture
The parents who held their 13 children captive inside their California home pleaded guilty Friday to multiple charges, including torture, prosecutors said.
Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin family
The 17-year-old girl who called police to report her allegedly abusive parents in Perris, California, said the house the family lived in smelled so badly that she could barely breathe, and she thought she and her 12 siblings might need to go to the doctor.
David Turpin charged with 8 counts of perjury
David Turpin, who along with his wife is charged with holding their 13 children captive and torturing 12 of them, was charged Friday with eight counts of perjury in connection to the private day school the couple created.
Allegedly held captive, Turpin children now 'happy' and Skyping
The 13 children of David and Louise Turpin, the California couple accused of holding their children captive and torturing 12 of them, are now enjoying freedom in three separate homes in Riverside County, authorities said on Monday.
Fallout from 'house of horrors' stains California city
Before the sensational "house or horrors" news exploded here and around the world with the discovery of the Turpin family -- 13 siblings allegedly held captive by their own parents in a Perris house -- whatever national publicity this city of 76,000 received was focused on the sky, like its ever-present flock of skydivers.
Woman who bought the Turpins' Texas home found feces everywhere
Nellie Baldwin has been buying rental properties for decades. In April 2011, she bought a foreclosed home in Rio Vista, Texas. She told CNN it was "nasty" and "looked like it was uninhabitable."
Turpin case: Siblings allegedly starved, shackled and taunted with food
For years, the 13 starving children lived in squalor, shackled with padlocks while their parents taunted them with pies left on the counter of their California home, authorities say.
Aunts of 13 captive siblings reveal years of secrecy, concerns
For decades, Elizabeth Flores begged to see her nieces and nephews. Even Skype would do.
Neighbor says Turpin children seemed 'terrified' when she tried to talk to them
When Kimberly Milligan moved into her California home in 2015, she was told her grandson might soon have a playmate, since a family of 12 lived across the street.
