Turpin sisters describe living in 'house of horrors': 'I thought I was going to die'

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Jennifer and Jordan Turpin share their stories for the first time

had just watched California sheriff’s deputies take their parents away in handcuffs.

Watch the Diane Sawyer special event, "Escape From A House Of Horror," on Friday, Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC and stream on Hulu. “I knew I would die if I got caught," said Jordan Turpin, now 21. "I think it was us coming so close to death so many times. If something happened to me, at least I died trying."

Jennifer Turpin said she attended public school from first through third grade, but then her parents took her out. During that time, she said she was sent to school unwashed, often wearing the same dirty clothes over and over. The other students “didn’t want to be my friend,” she said. Her father, she said, used belts and sticks to whip the children until they bled. Jennifer recalled one moment when she said her father picked her up, feet off the floor, and slammed her into a wall.

“I would try to stretch it out and make sure that we at least had stuff to eat each day of the week,” she said.“There was a lot of starving,” she said. “I would have to figure out how to eat. I would either eat ketchup or mustard or ice.”Jennifer Turpin said their parents left the older siblings with a flip phone so they could receive their “instructions.” One of which, according to Jennifer, was to put any rebellious children into cages, some of which were dog kennels with locks.

Jennifer Turpin said for years she and her siblings only ate once a day, primarily peanut butter sandwiches, bologna, a frozen burrito or chips, while their parents ate fast food and other full meals. “I did tell him that I didn’t really go to school, and I wasn’t allowed to go in the backyard or front yard and that I’m always kept inside, and I told him how we eat and how we’re not allowed to get out of bed,” she said. “He was like, ‘This isn’t right, you should call the cops’ … I was so happy to hear him say that because I was like, ‘I was right. I was right that this situation is bad.’”

On Jan. 14, 2018, the sisters said they knew the time to escape was running out when she and Jennifer Turpin heard her mother scream at them that the family was about to move to Oklahoma.Jordan Turpin managed to slip out of a window,When rescued, all of the children except for the youngest, a toddler, were severely malnourished, prosecutors said.

 

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