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发帖数: 1998 | 1 一对白畜， 生了13个子女， 都关在家里不让出门， 每天喂一顿饭， 白畜出门就把子
女拿狗链拴起来。
后来， 有个女孩搞到了手机， 偷偷跟外面联系， 最后破窗而出找到了警察， 差点被
美国警察当神经病处理。
女孩说服美国警察， 到她家搜查， 搜到了拿狗链拴床上的男孩。
十三个孩子， 有些已经成年了， 根本没有社会经验， 被加州政府部门接管了， 加州
政府委托给私人机构， 私人机构把他们分散到了枪战不断的屎坑区， 大概因为好区太
贵住不起。
这个就是美国政府的现状， 能够每年拿几千亿美元养龙虾党票蛆，却不管真正该关心
的弱势群体。
那个跳窗逃跑的女孩， 长得不错， 不过社交技能缺乏， 好像在玩Tiktok， 如果到中
国大概能有个好归宿
Louise Turpin and her husband, David Turpin, were sentenced to 25 years to
life in prison for torturing 12 of their 13 children. Some of the children
read statements at the hearing, detailing the years of abuse.CreditCredit...
Pool photo by Jae C. Hong
By Anemona Hartocollis
April 19, 2019
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A California couple who tortured 12 of their 13 children, starving and
beating them, depriving them of sleep and sometimes shackling them to their
beds with chains, were sentenced on Friday to 25 years to life in prison.
Some of their children gave statements at the sentencing hearing in
Riverside, Calif., saying they were haunted by the abuse, but also that they
had forgiven and still loved their parents. One daughter told a packed
courtroom that the suffering “may have been bad, but it made me strong.”
“My parents took my whole life from me, but now I’m taking my life back,”
said the young woman, who is now in college. She added: “I’m a fighter. I
’m strong.”
The couple, David and Louise Turpin, cried and trembled as four of their
children made statements, two of them through intermediaries, in Riverside
County Superior Court.
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One of the children, a young man who is studying software engineering at
college, said he had learned to ride a bike since being rescued. “Sometimes
I just go on long rides because I enjoy it so much,” he said.
The children were rescued in January 2018 after one of the girls worked up
the courage to escape by jumping from a window of the suburban Los Angeles
home where they had been kept prisoner. She called 911 from a cellphone she
had grabbed from the house and in a calm, clear voice described the years of
abuse to a police dispatcher.
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“I’ve never been out. I don’t go out much,” the girl told the dispatcher
. She was 17, but her voice sounded like that of a much younger child,
because, prosecutors said, her growth had been stunted by the abuse. The
abuse left two of her sisters unable to bear children, the authorities said.
[Read more about how the teenager alerted the authorities to her family’s
dark secret.]
Now, in a reversal of fortune, the parents, who pleaded guilty to multiple
counts of torture and abuse, are likely to spend the rest of their lives
locked up. They will be eligible for parole after 25 years, prosecutors said
, but they will probably remain in prison for life.
The children ranged from 2 to 29 years old when they were found. Some were
emaciated and appeared to have cognitive deficiencies from the abuse. Only
the toddler did not appear to have been abused, the authorities said.
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During the hearing on Friday, the children revealed some disturbing details
of their captivity. One of the daughters said that the children had been
shackled because their parents were afraid they were consuming too much
sugar and caffeine. But her parents continued buying bottles of soda, she
said, because if their father did not have it, he might fall asleep while
driving and get into an accident.
Some of the children described their household as a religious place where
they believed what was happening to them was God’s will. One of them quoted
a Bible verse about trusting in God.
Their words evoked the strange mix of terror and unreality that reigned in
the household. The young woman who described herself as a fighter said: “I
saw my dad change my mom. They almost changed me.”
Another daughter said her parents decided on home schooling because people
criticized them for having so many children. “It worked out good at first,
” especially after they moved from Texas to California, she said.
She said the family had passes to Disneyland and went to the Grand Canyon.
She asked the judge for leniency. “I feel like 25 years is too long,” she
said. “I believe with all my heart that our parents tried their best to
raise all 13 of us. They wanted to give us a good life, and they did
everything they could to protect us.”
To their neighbors, the family seemed normal, if reclusive. Mr. Turpin, 57,
had been an engineer for Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. Ms. Turpin,
50, apparently stayed at home. They lived in a nondescript stucco house in
the small, working-class city of Perris, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles.
Neighbors rarely saw the children outside the home. It was neat on the
outside, and so did not arouse suspicion. But it reeked of human waste on
the inside, where the children were often not released from their shackles
to go to the bathroom.
“We live in filth,” the 17-year-old said in the 911 call. “Sometimes I
wake up and I can’t breathe because of how dirty the house is.” She said
she had not bathed for almost a year.
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The children were forced to stay up at night and sleep during the day. They
were given carefully rationed meals — generally only one meal, a
combination of lunch and dinner — per day. The meals often consisted of
bologna or peanut butter sandwiches.
Three of the children who spoke said they still loved their parents. None of
the children were identified by name. The young man said he still had
nightmares about his siblings’ being chained up. “But that is the past,
and this is now,” he said. “I love my parents and have forgiven them for a
lot of the things they did to us.”
Their parents also addressed the court. “I never intended for any harm to
come to my children,” Mr. Turpin said. “I miss all of my children and will
be praying for them.”
Mrs. Turpin said through tears that she wanted to hug her children and tell
them how sorry she was. “I only want the best for them,” she said.
The judge, Bernard J. Schwartz, was unmoved. Children, he said, are “a gift
,” but the parents forfeited their right to raise them by their “selfish,
cruel and inhuman treatment.”
“Their lives have been permanently altered,” Judge Schwartz said, adding,
“To the extent that they do thrive from today, it will be not because of
you both, but in spite of you both.” | s*****n
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穿白衣就是跳窗的那个， 很克鲁
【在 s*****n 的大作中提到】
: 一对白畜， 生了13个子女， 都关在家里不让出门， 每天喂一顿饭， 白畜出门就把子
: 女拿狗链拴起来。
: 后来， 有个女孩搞到了手机， 偷偷跟外面联系， 最后破窗而出找到了警察， 差点被
: 美国警察当神经病处理。
: 女孩说服美国警察， 到她家搜查， 搜到了拿狗链拴床上的男孩。
: 十三个孩子， 有些已经成年了， 根本没有社会经验， 被加州政府部门接管了， 加州
: 政府委托给私人机构， 私人机构把他们分散到了枪战不断的屎坑区， 大概因为好区太
: 贵住不起。
: 这个就是美国政府的现状， 能够每年拿几千亿美元养龙虾党票蛆，却不管真正该关心
: 的弱势群体。
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