NEW YORK (Dagbladet): The risk to spend the rest of his life in prison after having acknowledged the straffskyld in court in River County in California.
The two faced a horrible list with tiltalepunkter including to starve, brutalise and torture the twelve of their 13 children over a period of many years, writes the Washington Post.
Now David (57) and Louise (50) Turpin said guilty on 14 points. As part of the tilståelsesavtalen they will get between 24 years and life in prison.
TAX: David (second from right) and Louise (metro.v.) Turpin says guilty of grotesque abuse and torture against their children. Photo: AP Photo/Ate C. Hong, Pool Show more Wept in court
Louise Turpin began to cry and wiped himself with a tissue paper in court Friday. The husband should have sat without emotion, describes the type AP.
the Children were between 2 and 29 years old when they were found in January 2018. They were all severely underweight and had not been able to wash themselves on måndesvis. They also told how they had been beaten, starved and placed in a cage.
the Couple were arrested immediately after the 17-year-old daughter managed to escape from the family home in Perris, California by climbing out of a window. She shall then have managed to call the emergency number.
“SKREKKENS HOUSE”: David and Louise Turpin lived together with their 13 children in this house in the Perris 100 miles from Los Angeles. Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP Show more
the Children must have been living under horrendous conditions in the “skrekkens house”. Not only should they have been knocked repeatedly. They shall also have been tied down. They should not have been allowed to bathe more than once a year. If they washed themselves higher than the wrist, they should have been punished, according to district attorney Mike Hestrin.
the couple’s 22-year-old son, must have been bound tightly with the chain periodically over a time of 6.5 years, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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The 17-year-old daughter has told that his father tried to abuse her sexually. The mother shall also have tried to strangle her after she discovered that her daughter had seen a Justin Bieber video on a mobile phone.
When the police came to the house in January 2018, found the three siblings chained to the beds.
the Investigation also has revealed that children also were not allowed to have toys. The parents shall have the pinet children by to buy apples and gresskarpai to them as to deny them to eat it. All the siblings suffered from severe malnutrition, and none of them had ever been at the doctor or dentist.
Only the charges of criminal offences against the couple’s youngest child, who was an infant, was dropped.
IN LAS VEGAS: David and Louise Turpin renewed marital vows during a ceremony by an Elvis imitator in Las Vegas in October 2011. The two married originally in 1985 when David was 23 years old and Louise was 16 years old. Photo: A Elvis Chapel via AP Show more
– About the only thing the children were allowed to at their rooms, or stuck, was to write in diaries. We have now secured us hundreds of these, ” said Hestrin earlier in the investigation, according to the Washington Post.
the Children were almost never go outdoors except during hallloween. The family also traveled on trips to Disneyland and Las Vegas. The rest of the time is spent on the kids mostly locked up in their rooms, according to the AP.
the Children were sent to the hospital immediately after the police made the horrifying findings. Since, they have been protected from the public eye, and was also not present in court.
– Powered by optimism
– We decided that these victims have suffered enough torture and abuse. I met the victims personally, and they are all relieved that the matter is resolved. The defendant in this case accepted in reality, the maximum sentence under the law in California, ” says Hestrin.
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Sentencing is scheduled to take place 19. april.
David Turpin worked as an engineer for both Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Louise Turpin was a housewife. The family to have done very little of in middelklassestrøket where they lived.
the Couple sent in reports to the authorities that the children received home schooling, but the oldest child should just have completed the third grade.
The underage children is now taken care of by child welfare authorities.
The seven grown-up children living together, going to school and being healthy while they live lives similar to their peers, ” says lawyer Jack Osborn, who represents the children, to the AP.
– I was struck by their optimism and framtidshåp. They have a great zest for life and a huge smile. I’m optimistic for them, and I think that’s the way they think about the future, ” says Hestrin.
