Warning: The following posts contains discussions of child abuse.
It’s been eight years since Jordan Turpin, then 17, escaped her family’s “House of Horrors” in California and called 911 to report that her parents, David Turpin and Louise Turpin, had been abusing her and her 12 siblings for years.
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