So I here story after story of families that make minor mistakes and lose their kids for well over a year and are forced to do all kinds of craziness, jumping through hoops and walking on eggshells going to court every few months to see if their kids can be allowed to come home yet and then there is this story of out of California about David and Louise Turpin.
The Turpins, People that should never have been allowed to have children. Were the parents of thirteen kids. The oldest who was twenty nine but, was originally believed to be in his early teens due to his years of malnourished and emaciation.
The neighbors never really saw them, the aunts and uncles had their concerns but never said anything. School teachers for thirteen kids for twenty nine never saw worth mentioning to any kind of protection agency. Im very curious to find out if there were ever any reports that went unchecked.
Well upon further inspection I learned that the teachers of the kids never said anything because David Turpin had opened a private school at the house and private schools are not subject to any kind of inspections, except one, fire inspections. Yearly fire inspections that are supposed to be carried out but never were. Not once over thirteen years. The fire marshal hasn't been available for questioning, go figure. If hid did his job just once those children most likely would have been saved. I wouldn't want to have to answer for that either.
It seems pretty obvious that if DCF went to their house like they did mine then that would have been all they needed to but an end to the unnecessary suffering and torture of thirteen helpless kids. According to initial allegations,The kids were only allowed to eat once a day and shower once a year, there were chains on some of the beds. The kids were not let to use the bathrooms and beaten for wasting water when they were caught washing their hands.
The parents are being accused of heinous acts too disgusting to list in detail but range from over three dozen different counts of child abuse, neglect lewd behavior
One of the children, a seventeen year old, had grabbed a cell phone that was in the house and managed to escape the house and called the police. If it wasn't for that chance of luck, who knows how long those kids would be tortured. I hate to think of the mental and emotional damage that has been done, the physical damages are a lot easier and quicker to recover from. DCF always seems to be there when they don"t need to be and never seem to be Where they are REALLY needed. Symptoms of a broken system