David and Louise Turpin, who last year were arrested after it emerged that they and their thirteen children for many years maltreated and starved, today announced the guilty pleaded to torture and abuse. The duo is going for at least 25 years of the cell.
The Not were arrested in January 2018 after their seventeen-year-old daughter escaped from their home and the emergency services called in the city of Perris, approximately 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The children, between 2 and 29 years old, was very malnourished and had for months no longer allowed to wash. They told to the authorities that they are beaten and starved and locked in cages.
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During their trial in Riverside called David and Louise Turpin both guilty of 14 charges for cruelty to twelve of their thirteen children, and for confinement. Only their two-year toddler would the misery have been spared. the
Louise Turpin cried during the hearing. Her husband behaved very stoically. They risk a lifetime in prison. “The defendants destroyed lives, so I think that it is fair and fair is that the punishment is equivalent to murder,” says Mike Hestrin, the prosecutor of Riverside.