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One day, the lost will be found
Will the Turpins eventually know which of their children was the one to escape and call for help?
IMO, they already know.
Will the Turpins eventually know which of their children was the one to escape and call for help?
The middle boy breaks my heart the most of all. I don't know why.Watching the video again, the middle boy and the oldest girl appear to be the most emaciated.
Will the Turpins eventually know which of their children was the one to escape and call for help?
IMO, they already know.
Will the Turpins eventually know which of their children was the one to escape and call for help?
Of course he is not "fat," nor are his actual arms and hands merely inanimate, helpless sticks. It may be that part of the brainwashing was constantly telling these starving children that they are "too fat".I don't think he thinks he's fat.
I think that part of the drawing is a wish. He is hungry.
This was found at one of the homes they use to live in. I wonder what this drawing is about?![]()
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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/images-released-texas-home-captive-siblings-live-52475851
All of this haunts me.
Two things from this article http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-na-perris-texas-20180120-story.html
1. Sometimes in the evenings she would hear the Turpin children playing in their yard, so one day she grabbed a jump rope and knocked on the door of the trailer. . . . A skinny, pale girl with long brown hair opened the door and just stared, she said. Her eyes just got real wide. She closed the door back in my face, Vinyard recalled.
If the children were being restrained while living in Texas, which it seems they were (see the next quote), can you imagine opening the door to a playmate and seeing her holding a jump rope, which, if youve possibly never jumped rope before, would look very much like a restraint. [emoji174]
At that moment at the door, the child could have thought, Parents restrain and torture usand people outside this house want to, too? Horrifying.
2. After the family left, repo men showed up for their two cars, and their house was foreclosed. Billy Baldwin and his mother bought the house a year later, the interior trashed, the bathroom floor rotted through, he said. Inside, Baldwin found a handful of Polaroids taken when the Turpins left. One shows a bed with a metal rail that has a rope tied to it, he said.
I keep wondering why DT and LT would photograph the bed with restraints on it and who knows what elseand why they would leave such incriminating photos behind.
Then, it occurred to me that perhaps, even then, one of the children had the wherewithal to take photos as evidence of the torture, neglect, and abuse and left it behind, in the hope that whoever lived in the home next would put two and two together and alert authorities.
Remembering that attempt at sending up a flare to signal distress did not work, this time child #8 took the evidence with her when she made her dash for life.
Maybe. Maybe not. JMO.
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Of course he is not "fat," nor are his actual arms and hands merely inanimate, helpless sticks. It may be that part of the brainwashing was constantly telling these starving children that they are "too fat".
It reminds me of the picture of Isabel Martinez. She stabbed her husband and 5 children. All died but one child. She was giving thumbs up and smiling in court.There is video. It's not inappropriate behavior per se. I see it as inappropriate affect. A lot of smiling as she sits there charged with the torture of her children.
Before it's said, I do not see it as "nerves".
MOO
LA Times editorial
After the Perris nightmare, it's time to monitor home-schools more closely
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-home-school-20180118-story.html
Most tales of home-schooling are of course nothing like this. But the Perris case serves as a reminder that California plays it too loosey-goosey when it comes to the welfare and education of home-schooled children.
At the same time, like every state, California has a compulsory-education law as well as numerous child-welfare statutes. The state bears some responsibility for ensuring that children are getting the basics of a good education and that they are safe. As great as many home-schoolers are, there also are parents who withdraw their children from public schools at precisely the moment when teachers, who are mandated public reporters of child abuse, start noticing signs of potentially dangerous family problems and asking questions.
What might a reasonable, non-bureaucratic set of rules look like? Here’s one possibility: annual inspections by school districts, reimbursed by the state, to ensure that students are learning in a basically decent environment. The inspectors would interview students privately so that they could feel safe talking about any abuse and would review the educational plan and a portfolio of the student’s work to see whether the parents are actually teaching.
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I don't recall if this People article on what a high school friend of DT's said about him has been posted.
http://people.com/crime/california-house-horrors-classmate-david-turpin-speaks/
Gilbert describes Turpin back then as a homebody who was never in trouble. He says Turpin was a member of the bible and chess clubs as well as the a cappella group.
He was a quiet, very intelligent person, Gilbert says. Just, well actually sort of nerdy, and I dont meant that in a bad way at all.
Another article: Princeton Residents Remember Turpin
http://www.register-herald.com/news...cle_37571d0b-50b6-56b7-b2d4-53c9f78d32e1.html
A copy of the 1979 Tiger Yearbook listed Turpin as a member of the treasurer of the Bible Club, co-captain of the Chess Club and a member of the Science Club and Acapella Choir. Like many of other seniors looking forward to graduation, David Turpin outlined his ambitions and personal motto.
His ambition was to take up a career in electrical engineering and invent the light bulb. And his motto was: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow, according to the yearbook.
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When do you think there will be another press conference or release of info?
Homeschooling is growing year by year. Visiting every home to inspect? Seems like a task that could never actually be accomplished or funded.
Not sure this thread needs to go down this road anyway....this is one editorial that could be countered with another and on and on, ykwim?
jmo