© Zoe Meyers/The Desert SunDavid and Louise Turpin were arrested on Sunday after Riverside County sheriff deputies found siblings malnourished in their Perris, Calif. home, Tuesday, January 16, 2018.
The children weren't allowed to eat. They weren't allowed to bathe. They couldn't play with toys that were kept in the closet, still packaged. They couldn't go outside. They couldn't escape.
Their depraved parents, prosecutors say, only allowed them to do one thing - they could write.
On Sunday, Riverside County law enforcement discovered 13 siblings - ages 2 to 29 - imprisoned in an unassuming Perris home after a teenage captive escaped through a window and called for help, revealing a crime that has horrified and captivated the nation.
The children's parents, David and Louise Turpin, now face life in prison for multiple counts of torture, child abuse, false imprisonment and other charges. While describing the case on Thursday, prosecutors revealed
the Turpin children's only freedom was writing in journals, hundreds of which have been recovered by authorities.
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