"Mexico will never ever pay for this wall. You can believe me on that."
~~ Vicente Fox
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Those charged-and-jailed people from Perris, California, who are alleged to have abused 12 of their 13 children: reports say they --
|| starved the children and bought pies and put them out on the kitchen counter where the children could see them but not taste them
|| bought toys and brought them home but left them in the package and never opened them and children were not allowed to play with them
|| a neighbor in Texas, from earlier years, said they bought bicycles -- five or six or seven of them -- and left them outside lined up in a row, and they sat there unused, for months, until they were sun-bleached.
This behavior, to me, is appalling. Why? There's a lot of violence and horrible stuff in the world, why is this particular report so shocking and so utterly dismaying? Maybe because of the -- how it's sort of calmly, coldly all planned out.
Planned out ahead of time.
One of the commenters on Internet called it "strategic" -- for the parents, it was a "long game" -- they were looking at the big picture, they wanted, and worked toward, specific and ongoing results -- children they could torment and control.
For 30 years.
The oldest one is 29 years old - ! Mr. and Mrs. Turpin were never going to let those people out of their control, they would have been prisoners forever. Unbelievable. Unfathomable. Bizarre. New words need to be invented. ...
The commenter called it "strategic neglect and deprivation coupled with low level chronic physical abuse" -- it was a deliberate, thought-out "project" to totally and cruelly subjugate human beings -- who happened to be their own children.
Difficult to mentally process that.
And furthermore,
if that monster-mom called herself a full-time homemaker, why was she buying pies? Don't they make them from scratch? Including the crusts?
Anyway, I just can't -- uuaaggh....
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Reader Comments
> Abuse isn't the result of children being home-schooled, but it sure hides a lot of it. Better oversight is needed.
> How do these psycho people find each other?
> ...People...are too reluctant to confront evil, to acknowledge its existence....
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Topic: The Turpin children's journals
Several news reports have noted that while the children in that house were teased with food they weren't allowed to eat, tormented with toys they weren't allowed to play with, and not let outdoors to play -- the thing they were allowed to do was write in journals.
(Pause.)
(Experienced and expert criminal abusers might ask the Turpin parents, "Hey why did you let your kids write in notebooks? Now there will be all that evidence against you -- you enabled them to document your actions. You made them document your actions! That was dumb!")
The parents had strategies for hiding their treatment of their children from public awareness, for staying under the radar...
- home schooling
- keeping the kids up at night and sleeping during the day
- never having friends over
- keeping their distance from neighbors
- distancing themselves from family (they moved clear across the country)...
Then why have the children write journals which probably document the parents' horrible behavior? It's like -- OOPS -- Now you're on the radar...!
Why let them (or make them) write journals?
Possibilities
- The Turpin parents thought they'd never be caught -- believed no one's ever going to see those journals
- Maybe the parents controlled what the children wrote in the journals -- made them write, "our life is so happy and our parents are so fantastic" or whatever
Or
- maybe the parents -- Never. Bothered. To Read. The Journals.
________ To me, that possibility is -- intriguing.
It's a far-fetched possibility, but that whole situation is beyond far-fetched.
Think about it:
those atrocious "parents" appear to be so unimaginably narcissistic, self-centered, using their children as targets for their cruel obsessions and focusing on their own entertainment --
repetitive Disneyland, repetitive wedding-vow-renewing in Las Vegas --
is it possible that their outlandishly extreme self-absorption made them "blind" to the "danger" of the children's journals becoming powerful evidence against themselves?
And think about this: for this father and mother ( ) to take one of those journals, sit down, & read it would be in a sense like "listening" to the child who wrote it. When you listen to a person, you are paying attention to what they say, and what they are feeling. You are giving attention to what is on their mind. You are respecting them.
These parents do not seem to have respected their children -- (putting it mildly....)
And monster-mom kind of seems like the type of person who might think reading and writing is 'punishment' -- something kids won't want to do.... "you can't ride the bikes we brought home, or play with the toys, but you have to write -- mwa-ha-ha-ha..."
It would be quite an irony (a sweet one for justice and a bitter one for the Turpin parents) if those journals convict them....
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