I never knew you could call 9-1-1 from a cell phone that's been "deactivated." That is something new I learned from reading news stories about the Turpin family case in Perris, California.
The media has dubbed it the "House of Horrors" -- ordinarily we might think, 'Oh there goes the media, sensationalizing the story with a flamboyant nickname,' but in this case it seems like the name is appropriate.
This story is difficult to get your mind around. We hear news of child abuse and most of the time we skip it for two reasons -- 1) save our sanity, and 2) nothing we can do about it, leave it to the professionals to do their jobs.
(And in a sense, we are "doing something about it" because our tax dollars pay those professionals to provide the care and counseling necessary to try to recover from terrible trauma and we vote into office political leaders who make laws against child abuse, and put more laws and rules in place to support the original law -- for example, requiring public school personnel and medical people to report any signs that a child might be abused....)
So we can and do "Do Something" about it, through the standards set in a civil and decent society -- a democratic republic.
-------------------- So usually I don't read or listen to news stories like this, unless it's to see & make sure the children have been removed from the toxic situation and are now in safety and being taken care of.
This story, I read more about it because at first I was so dumbfounded -- I was sort of -- um, I don't think there is a word for this...you have to come up with a new word.
Riverside County prosecutor Mike Hestrin called the treatment of the Turpin children "depravity." Someone else said "malice"; today at work someone applied the word "vicious." That's a good one. That fits.
When I hear a horrific news story, the first two words that pop into my mind are "stupid" and "crazy" but really, those two words may not apply.
(The word I'm hesitant to come up with is "evil.")
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Saturday Comments on the Perris story:
~~ So wrong. Damn 😞
Sergio Torres
~~ That's crazy I live in Perris it is a small ass city
Angel Camacho
~~ So sad
Haisha Nieves
~~ Creepy
Stephen Jones
~~ Christ, this is like the baker family from resident evil 7
ocean man
~~ ...This type of stuff is sadly happening all over the world! I hope they throw the book at these Demons!
La Shell P
~~ This kind of reminds me of the story flowers in the attic
Serena
~~ He needs to be arrested just for that haircut
Cameron McConnell
~~ Sounds like North Korea
Gauge Devaughn
~~ Couldn't the kids report the abuse in school??? Wtf!!
Princess
~~ They were home schooled so no
Someone Ty
~~ Come on, anyone with that hair isn't all there
Michael Dust
~~ They feel a sense of power and accomplishment they're psychopaths and get some sort of sick pleasure out of the harm of others
Gracie Lee
~~ we had religious wackos like this who lived down the street from us. 2 of their kids actually ran away and a third killed herself. I really don't like how uber religious ppl think they need to have this dictatorship over their kids. This is 1 of the reasons I despise religion. It has manipulated and twisted more ppl throughout history for bad and not good
RML 3000 v
~~ So sickening and sad
kc
~~ The people under the stairs...
rvfjone
~~ You want justice? Throw the "father" in a room with a few volunteering fellas for one hour and whatever happens happens.
I'm In!!!!!
The Rare Breed
~~ Were the kids being homeschooled or did they go to public school?
Monster 12255
~~ probably homeschooled or else someone would've caught this
Pablo Sanchez
~~ Homeschooled, other reports about this seem to indicate they registered their residence as a school with the "father" as a principal or something.
I'm not entirely sure how home schooling is even still a thing.
Eric Ling
~~ This is why homeschooling should at least be monitored if it's still going to exist. It's too easy for crazy parents to have complete control over their children's lives and not allow any contact or socialization with the outside world.
kitty
~~ Look at the parents' eyes. They look so dark, and wrong. It makes me feel unsafe.
Dragon artist
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