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Jan 24, 2024 · Police found the Turpin children — whose ages ranged from 2 to 29 — chained up, malnourished, and abused at the hands of their parents, David and Louise Turpin.
- Richard Pollina
- 1 min
Feb 6, 2023 · In a July 2022 cover story, the courageous 21 year old — who escaped extreme parental abuse 4 years ago — opens up about enduring more pain in foster care and finding "light" in her 12...
- Melody Chiu
- 8 min
- Living in Squalor
- Shielded in Secrecy
- "Just Google It"
- Repeated Abuse
As Riverside's district attorney, it was Hestrin who prosecuted the Turpins' parents, David and Louise. They are now serving life sentences in separate California penitentiaries. Hestrin said he and his team are among the few outsiders who have managed to remain in contact with the children -- their lives shielded behind layers of secrecy, mandated...
ABC News' investigation has yielded few answers from county officials. The Turpins' case remains shrouded in secrecy -- obscured from public view through sealed court records and a conservatorship, the same arrangement that recently ended for pop star Britney Spears. State law mandates confidentiality on all juvenile court proceedings, effectively ...
A major challenge for the Turpins has been accessing the state and county social service programs they were entitled to, as well as the donations that came in following their parents' arrest. Most of the funds have gone into a trust that is controlled by a court-appointed public guardian, but details about the guardian -- and the money -- are hard ...
As the adult children struggled under county guardianship, some of their seven younger siblings faced new hardships in the foster care system and the California-based agency contracted to run it by the county. According to public records reviewed by ABC News, ChildNet has in recent years been the subject of dozens of investigations into allegations...
David and Louise Turpin were sentenced to life in prison in 2019, after pleading guilty to 14 counts of torture, dependent adult abuse, child endangerment and false imprisonment. The nightmare...
Nov 16, 2021 · Find out more about the 13 Turpin children, who were held captive by their parents, until one sibling escaped in 2018.
Jul 14, 2022 · (ABC News) What happened to the Turpin children? David and Louise Turpin had 13 children, who in 2018 ranged from two years old to 29.
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W hat happened to the Turpin children at their foster family's house "was in many ways worse than what ... of lewd acts on a child 14 or 15 years old, with the defendant being at least 10 years ...
