American marriage that subject to the mistreatment and torture of their 13 children received perpetual

The American couple accused of torturing, mistreating and withholding their 13 children in the family home located in southern California was sentenced today to life in a state court. The hearing in which the sentence was heard took place in a Riverside court, after the parents – in February – pleaded guilty to 14 counts of indictment and apologized to their children and reiterated their love, said this afternoon. EFE Agency. "I am sorry for all that I have done to hurt my children," said Louise Turpin, adding that she believed that God had a special plan for each one of them.

"I love you more than you could imagine," she said in distress. David and Louise Turpin, the parents, bowed their heads and cried on hearing the testimony of some of their unidentified children at court and one of whom recognized that he was still suffering from nightmares where he saw how they beat and chained their brothers. "My parents have kidnapped me all my life, but now I'm recovering," said one of the girls in the courtroom.

Some of their children said that they still loved their parents and that they believed that everything they did was for the love that they had for them. That's why they asked for a not-so-harsh sentence, while another stated that he had forgiven them and prayed for them. . Another said, "I can not describe in words what we are experiencing as we grow up, sometimes I still have nightmares about things that have happened, as if my brothers were chained or beaten." "But it's the past and it's now," he concluded. This young man is now attending the university where he is studying software engineering.

He added that he had learned to swim, bike and defend himself. "I love my parents and I have forgiven them a lot of the things they've done to us," he concluded. As stated at the hearing, the couple has the opportunity to apply for parole after 25 years of imprisonment. The marriage of David and Louise Turpin was arrested in January 2018 after one of her daughters, then 17, managed to escape from her home and called the house number. 911 emergency to report that her sisters had remained "chained to the beds" in the family home, located in the town of Perris.

The authorities discovered the unhealthy conditions and conditions in which the 13 children aged between 3 and 29, then tied with ropes or chains and locked in cages, were. Even some of them suffered from severe malnutrition. "This is the most horrible case I've ever seen in my entire career as a prosecutor," acknowledged Mike Hestrin, the Riverside attorney, last February.

The justice official explained that he had accepted the couple's guilty plea in order to prevent the victims from having to testify. "I think everything is going for a reason, that life may have been bad, but it made me strong, I fought to become the person I am," said another of the girls of the couple today.