Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailThe 13 starving siblings held captive in a California house by their parents were allowed to eat only one rationed meal a day and shower just twice a year. The disturbing details emerged before David Allen Turpin, 57, and his wife, Louisa Anna Turpin, 49, made their first court appearance since their arrest on Sunday. Authorities in Perris, California, where the couple lived, have told how the children were scarcely fed and were dirty, living in a urine-soaked bedroom before they were found. How sad,” Mary Parks, senior public information specialist for the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services said. “They were just like any ordinary family,” said Betty Turpin, the 81-year-old mother of David Turpin.

Source: Daily Mirror January 18, 2018 18:54 UTC