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16 Jan 2018

Parents held after allegedly holding their children captive

Chief Correspondent

Police in California have arrested a couple who allegedly kept their 13 children prisoners in their home, some of them chained to their beds with padlocks. David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin are now being held on charges of torture and child endangerment. One of the siblings managed to escape and called the police on a phone she’d found inside the house. But how did they remain hidden for so long?