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Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin family
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1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other
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Length: 2,460 m (8,071 ft)
Width: 32 m (105 ft)
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Tower
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central spans of 342 m (1,122 ft) each.
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layer)
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John and Mary were having dinner in a very fine restaurant.
Their waitress, taking another order at a table a few paces
away noticed that John was suddenly and silently sliding
down his chair and under the table, while Mary acted quite
unconcerned.

Their waitress watched as John slid all the way down his
chair and out of sight under the table.

After the waitress finished taking the order, she came over
to the table and said to the woman, "Pardon me, ma'am, but
I think your husband just slid under the table."

The woman calmly looked up at her and replied firmly, "Oh,
no he didn't.  In fact, my husband just walked in the front
door."
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An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD 
has been earned by

Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, right, sit in 
court for a preliminary hearing on June 20, 2018.

Louise Turpin, 49,
David Turpin, 56,
Perris, 
California

Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin family

The 17-year-old girl who called police to report her allegedly
abusive parents in Perris, California, said the house the family
lived in smelled so badly that she could barely breathe, and she
thought she and her 12 siblings might need to go to the doctor.

And when she struggled to remember the address of the home, the 911
operator asked her if she was around the corner from her house.
"Yeah, I think," the girl said. "I've never been out. I don't go
out much."
That chilling 911 call was made public Wednesday as part of a
preliminary hearing in the case against David and Louise Turpin,
the California couple accused of holding their 13 children captive
in a "house of horrors."

'I've never been out': Chilling 911 call reveals abuse in Turpin
family
By Sonya Hamasaki and Eric Levenson, CNN

Updated 4:06 AM ET, Thu June 21, 2018
Surveillance shows Turpin siblings' escape
Play Video

Surveillance shows Turpin siblings' escape 01:05
Riverside, California (CNN)The 17-year-old girl who called police
to report her allegedly abusive parents in Perris, California, said
the house the family lived in smelled so badly that she could
barely breathe, and she thought she and her 12 siblings might need
to go to the doctor.

And when she struggled to remember the address of the home, the 911
operator asked her if she was around the corner from her house.
"Yeah, I think," the girl said. "I've never been out. I don't go
out much."
That chilling 911 call was made public Wednesday as part of a
preliminary hearing in the case against David and Louise Turpin,
the California couple accused of holding their 13 children captive
in a "house of horrors."
Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, right, sit in court for a
preliminary hearing on June 20, 2018.
Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, right, sit in court for a
preliminary hearing on June 20, 2018.
Prosecutors say the couple beat and tortured their children, kept
them chained to their beds and starved them- all while the family
dogs were kept clean and well-fed.
They were arrested on January 14 after their 17-year-old daughter
escaped from a window and called 911 on a deactivated cell phone.
The Turpin siblings are comprised of six minors and seven adults,
ranging in age from 2 years old to 29.

David Turpin, 56, and Louise Turpin, 49, pleaded not guilty to more
than 40 charges, including torture, false imprisonment, abuse of a
dependent adult and child abuse. David Turpin also pleaded not
guilty to one count of lewd conduct with a minor.
Despite the horror of the 911 call, the girl's voice sounded
remarkably calm and clear while relating her experience. But the
call, as well as police who responded to the scene, provided
several disturbing new details from the home and the degree to
which the parents controlled their children's lives.
"I can't breathe because of how dirty the house is," the Turpin
daughter said on the call. "We don't take baths. I don't know if we
need to go to the doctor."

Accounts of abuse and starvation
Other Turpin children told investigators they were abused.
A 14-year-old girl said Louise Turpin threw her down the stairs
when she was caught in her mom's room, investigator Brett Rooker of
the Riverside County Sheriff's Office testified.
"She said she was terrified of her mother," he said.
An 11-year-old girl said that Louise Turpin would often punch them
with a closed fist and hit her with an open hand, Riverside County
Deputy Sheriff Daniel Brown testified. The girl said that
sometimes, her mother pulled her hair so forcefully it would lift
her off the ground, Brown said.

The girl said she was "always hungry," he further testified. The
children were fed jalapeno baloney sandwiches while the parents ate
Jersey Mike's, pizza and fries, he said. The girl said Louise
Turpin would buy apple juice but the children weren't allowed to
drink it. She kept pie in the fridge or pantry until it became
moldy and then threw it away.

A doctor who treated the family said the 11-year-old girl was in
the worst condition when the examined her, Patrick Morris,
Supervising Investigator for Riverside County District Attorney, 
testified.

She had a body weight percentile of .01 and her mid arm
circumference was equal to that of a 4.5-month-old baby, Morris
testified. The doctor said she had psychosocial dwarfism, stunted
growth due to living in an environment that is abusive or
neglected.
The 15-year-old boy had difficulty walking, vitamin D deficiency,
and visible scoliosis. He told the doctor that he wanted to kill
animals and could predict the future, Morris testified.

The 17-year-old Turpin daughter who made the 911 call weighed about
97 pounds with a BMI of 2.2% when doctors first examined her,
Morris said.
In other parts of the call, told the operator that her parents were
abusive and had chained up two of her sisters, and that she thought
her father had guns in the house. She also said she hadn't taken a
bath in almost a year.

Riverside Deputy Manuel Campos, who responded to the 911 call,
testified on Wednesday that the girl appeared much younger than 17.

"She appears not to bathe regularly," he also said. "There was odor
emitting from her body of one that doesn't bathe regularly."
The girl was shaking on the call and "scared to death" from the
daring escape out of the window, Campos said. She said that she was
kept in the room with her sisters for about 20 hours a day, and
that she was only allowed to leave the room to eat, use the
restroom and brush her teeth, Campos said.

If she broke the rules, she would be disciplined in the form of
knocking on the head, pulling of hair, or being smacked in the
face. After she watched a Justin Bieber video on a cell phone, her
mother choked her, she told Campos.

In addition to the physical abuse, there was a sexual incident with
her father, the girl told police. She said her father pulled her
pants down, grabbed her and put her on his lap. She tried to push
him away, and pulled her pants up, Campos said.
He also tried to force kisses on her mouth, she told Campos, and
this happened about 10 times. The girl said her father told her not
to tell anyone, Campos said.

They remain in custody in lieu of $12 million bail each after
pleading not guilty to all of their charges.



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HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling
at the same kids.
--- Derrick, age 8

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Both don't want any more kids.
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Today, June 22 in
1558 The French took the French town of Thioville from the English.

1611 English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other
people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers. 

1772 Slavery was outlawed in England. 

1807 British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading
to the War of 1812. 

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated a second time. 

1832 J.I. Howe patented the pin machine. 

1874 Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of
osteopathy. 

1909 The first transcontinental auto race ended in Seattle, WA. 

1911 King George V of England was crowned. 

1915 Austro-German forces occupied Lemberg on the Eastern Front as
the Russians retreat. 

1925 France and Spain agreed to join forces against Abd el Krim in
Morocco. 

1933 Germany became a one political party country when Hitler
banned parties other than the Nazis. 

1939 The first U.S. water-ski tournament was held at Jones Beach,
on Long Island, New York. 

1940 France and Germany signed an armistice at Compiegne, on terms
dictated by the Nazis. 

1941 Under the codename Barbarossa, Germany invaded the Soviet
Union. 

1942 A Japanese submarine shelled Fort Stevens at the mouth of the
Columbia River. 

1942 V-Mail, or Victory-Mail, was sent for the first time. 

1944 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the "GI Bill of
Rights" to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war. 

1945 During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended
after 81 days. 

1946 Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time. 

1956 The battle for Algiers began as three buildings in Casbah were
blown up. 

1964 The U.S. Supreme Court voted that Henry Miller's book, "Tropic
of Cancer", could not be banned. 

1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting
Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United
States to be 18. 

1973 Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a
record 28 days in space. 

1974 In Chicago, the Sears Tower Skydeck opened. (After 9/11 Sears
got scared and evacuated. It is now the Willis Tower) 

1978 James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington discovered the only
known moon of Pluto. The moon is named Charon. 

1980 The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces
from Afghanistan. 

1989 The government of Angola and the anti-Communist rebels of the
UNITA movement agreed to a formal truce in their 14-year-old civil
war. 

1990 Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin. 

1992 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that hate-crime laws
that ban cross-burning and similar expressions of racial bias
violated free-speech rights. 

1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained
by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted
criminal's parole. 

1998 The 75th National Marbles Tournament began in Wildwood, NJ. 

1999 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable
handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the
Americans with Disability Act. 

2009 Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue
sales of the Kodachrome Color Film.

2018  smiled.

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