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MATT GUTMAN
Good Morning America March 19, 2018 https://www.yahoo.com/gma/exclusive...e-freedom-090803244--abc-news-topstories.html
That 17-year-old sibling had only been on social media for a few weeks when she began chatting with a man who told her what's happening in her home was wrong, encouraged her to escape and alert authorities.
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Not sure but it doesn't match up with what the DA stated in his press conference on Jan 18, 2018. He said they had been planning the escape for 2 yrs.
The whole being on social media and YouTube didn't match up either but clearly it was the young lady who escaped. And then it was taken down.
Here is an article
POSTED: JAN 18 2018 11:21AM PST
VIDEO POSTED: JAN 19 2018 02:10PM PST
UPDATED: JAN 19 2018 02:17PM PST
RIVERSIDE, CA (FOX 11 / AP)
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And yet, some of the children of David and Louise Turpin hatched an escape plan. It took two years to carry out but last weekend a 17-year-old girl and her sister climbed out of the window of their Southern California home. The other girl turned back out of fear but the teen persisted and called 911. http://www.ktvu.com/home/parents-of-13-malnourished-children-charged-bail-set-at-13-million
DA press conf 5:30 mark is where DA states that the 17 year old had been working on plan for 2 years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZWpX62z5Mg
I don't think that the idea that they had been talking and planning an escape for two years and the fact that someone online encouraged her to escape are mutually exclusive. They could well have been fantasizing about it for two years but it took the push of an outsider to actually give her the necessary impetus or fortitude to proceed with it. She was only on SM for about 4 weeks or so, and it would appear that this is when she started taking the pictures on her phone. And she managed to get pictures of the three that were chained up that night.
Her heart must have been pounding - "I'm really going to do this. I'm really going to go through this." - along with some self-doubt - "Is this the right thing to do? That is my family." and of course fear, as has already been stated - "I will be in chains for months if they catch me!" Or worse.
As for only being aloud to write in journals, it has been suggested that she did those songs on the occasions when the parents were out - probably eating out, as they apparently did regularly. I'm sure they knew when it was safe to make noise and when it wasn't.