Parents from California Horror-house to plead guilty

The couple has in California, had held his 13 children for years under inhumane conditions, trapped, guilty known. As the public Prosecutor's office in the administrative district of Riverside announced on Friday, the 56-year-old David Allen Turpin and his 50-year-old wife, Louise, Anna Turpin, a formal admission of guilt. Specifically, they confessed, among other things, to have twelve of their children tortured.

The police had completed the martyrdom of the 13 siblings in January 2018, after a then 17-year-old daughter had freed himself, and dialed. Some of them siblings, aged between two and 29 years, were chained with padlocks on their beds. They were severely malnourished, which is why the police stopped you first of all for a minor. Later it turned out that seven of them were already grown up.

According to the Prosecutor, the children in the "Horror of were-house" - so the name in the US media over a long period of time, miss. You had not been allowed to shower more often than Once in a year. Visits to the doctor had been banned. Often they could not even go to the toilet, because the parents do not want them to remove the shackles. (anf/afp)

Created: 22.02.2019, 20:15 Uhr