The day a malnourished teen slipped through the window of the suburban California home she shared with her parents and 12 siblings, before dialling 911 on a smuggled phone, was a banner day: the 17-year-old’s call in the early hours of Jan. 14 exposed a house of horrors and made world headlines.
Her parents, David Turpin, 56, and wife Louise, 50, were charged with the abuse, torture and false imprisonment of all but one of their 13 children. Now, in a preliminary court hearing, sensational new details have emerged, including the contents of that emergency call.
In audio played in the courthouse at Riverside County, California, on June 20, the teen was heard telling the emergency operator in a child-like voice, “I live in a family of 15 people and…