Usually, their only diet consisted of just peanut butter sandwiches, the sisters told Sawyer. None of them had seen a doctor in more than four years, and none of them had ever visited a dentist. The parents had starved their 13 children, shackling them with padlocks and taunting them with pies left on the counter of their home, authorities said.
“Oh my gosh, this is so free, like, this is life.” “If something happened to me, at least I died trying” I was like, ‘How could heaven be better than this’?” Jordan said. “I was so excited because I could smell the air, I could smell the grass. There was also an exhilarating visit to a playground. “I made sure there was a little bit of a floor cleared out and I danced.” “Music was playing, I got up,” Jennifer, now 33, told Sawyer. The first thing Jennifer Turpin did to celebrate was dance in the middle of her hospital room. The children had limited language skills and knew little about the outside world.īesides suffering severe caloric malnutrition associated with muscle wasting, several had cognitive impairment and “neuropathy, which is nerve damage, as a result of this extreme and prolonged physical abuse,” Hestrin said. One preteen’s arm was the size of a 4.5 month old baby, according to ABC. Some were so emaciated they could barely walk, others suffered from heart damage due to a lack of nutrients. The 13 Turpin kids were taken to a hospital, where their nurses and doctors began treating them for a long list of issues. “‘The only word I know to call it is hell,” said Jennifer Turpin, the eldest of the children. Bodycam footage from that day show the heavy chains used on the children. One child was found with his wrist and ankle chained to the bedpost he had been in that state for weeks. They discovered a home reeking of human excrement, decaying garbage, and molding food, with every surface covered in trash, ABC News reported in the 20/20 program titled, “Escape From A House Of Horror.” The children were found quietly sitting in filthy beds, limp, frail, caked in dirt, their arms covered in bruises. When police arrived at the Turpin home and declared they were conducting a welfare check, it didn’t take long for them to recognize the magnitude of the children’s horrifying reality.
The pair were each sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to 14 charges of torture, adult abuse, child endangerment, false imprisonment and more. That morning, Jordan sat in the back of a police car and watched as her parents, David and Louise Turpin, were arrested. A few of the adults were so malnourished, they looked like young teenagers. Some of the siblings, who ranged in age from 2 to 29, had been found shackled to beds with chains and padlocks. Her bold getaway in January 2018 led to the discovery of her siblings and uncovered what Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin described as one of the “worst, most aggravated child abuse cases” he has ever seen.
When the first police officer arrived, she immediately showed him the phone, full of photos and videos she took of herself and her siblings to prove the abuse. This will lift you up to the next floor.Turpin sisters share the details of California family's house of horror Now, wait a bit, then jump on the top of the elevator. Have Six boost you up again to pull the switch so it comes back up. So, head inside the elevator and flip the switch so it goes down, then run back out. This puzzle is a little tricky, but mainly, the switch on this floor brings the elevator back up. Six will move over to boost you up to the switch on the left, but there are some things you’ll have to do first. Head to the room on the left and you’ll find the key in the first drawer on the bottom right. Start making your way up and you’ll pop up right in front of the locked elevator. Hit the switch in the elevator again and, while it's going back up, jump over to this platform and climb up. While heading down, you’ll notice a hole in the wall on the right and some planks you can climb on. This will take you up, but you’ll need a key to get through, so head back down. Hop down towards the elevator and flip the switch inside it.