Jennifer and Jordan Turpin share their stories for the first time. Watch the DianeSawyer special event, 'Escape From A House Of Horror,' on Friday, Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC and stream on Hulu.
Jennifer and Jordan Turpin describe, in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer, when they realized for the first time that their imprisonment by their parents was over.had just watched California sheriff’s deputies take their parents away in handcuffs.
Watch the Diane Sawyer special event,"Escape From A House Of Horror," on Friday, Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC and stream on Hulu. David and Louise Turpin are now in prison. They pleaded guilty to charges including torture and false imprisonment. In 2019, they were sentenced to 25 years to life.When the abuse started
Jennifer Turpin said she attended public school from first through third grade, but then her parents took her out. During that time, she said she was sent to school unwashed, often wearing the same dirty clothes over and over. The other students “didn’t want to be my friend,” she said. Her father, she said, used belts and sticks to whip the children until they bled. Jennifer recalled one moment when she said her father picked her up, feet off the floor, and slammed her into a wall.
“You’re torn, you don’t know what to do,” she said. “I was on the brink of suicide. I wanted to just end it all. All of my pain, everything.” The Turpins filed documents saying they were homeschooling their children but Jennifer and Jordan Turpin said that wasn’t the case. Instead, they said their mother would coach each of the children to remember what grade they were supposed to be in, based on their ages, and they secretly tried to teach each other what they could.When their parents were out of the house, Jennifer Turpin said she and her siblings would sometimes secretly watch movies or listen to music.
One day, a sibling in the house told Lousie Turpin that Jordan was watching a Bieber video. Jordan said her mother came at her and began choking her. Jordan Turpin said she was in a room where two of her little sisters had been chained to their beds for as long as four months. Seeing them in agony, she decided she was going to escape to get help.“She was like, ‘We need to get out of here,’” Jennifer Turpin said. “So I gave her all the advice I knew, all the advice I could.”From watching television shows, Jordan Turpin knew she needed proof of the abuse.
An 11-year-old child was so malnourished that her arm circumference was the equivalent of a 4-and-a-half month old baby, investigators said. “I was so excited because I could smell the grass,” she said. “I was like, ‘How could heaven be better than this? … Oh my gosh, this is so free, this is life.’”
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