one victim at one point was tied up and
hogtied and then when that victim was
able to escape the ropes these
defendants eventually began using chains
and padlocks that was Riverside County
District Attorney Michael Hester in
describing the scene at the so-called
California house of horrors and we're
back now with Teresa Robinette sister -
Louise Turpin Louise and her husband
David stand charged with thirty eight
counts of torture child abuse and
unlawful imprisonment Teresa did you
ever speak to the children by phone it's
been a long time but yes I used to it's
been close to seven or eight years since
I've even got the video Skype with them
and what were they like when you spoke
with them they were very friendly but it
was a very weird conversation every time
because they weren't real talkative they
would come in when she would let me
video skype with them it got to where
instead of having all of them together
like we did years and years ago it got
to where she would bring in you know one
or two or three at a time and then she
would send them out and tell them to
stand down so and so did they seem
cognitively you know where they ought to
be you know they seemed oh yeah I mean I
always even said that you know I think
those children are very book smart but I
was a worried because they were home
schooled and because they didn't hold a
conversation will I was always concerned
that they weren't gonna be socially
developed because she homeschooled I'm
an aide so let's talk about Louise there
was abuse in your family yes in you and
your your family have been fairly open
about that in the wake of this discovery
can you tell us a little about that
yes a very very close family member that
we should have okay we should have loved
interested he um
abused my mother and sexually abused my
mother and then me and Louise Elizabeth
and a few of our cousins in the family
that was a situation that was ongoing
for me and my sisters only because my
mother had so much abuse in her life I
think that her mind was she was still
going through it as an adult and my
mother still took us around this person
a lot and the Wiis and some people
believe including Louise that may have
played a role because now we're we're
being told that David is accused of at
least one lewd act against a child under
the age of 14 it's not an excuse of
course it's just a it's just a
background piece of information did you
I know that you saw Louise engaging in
sorry painful to talk about the first
time we talked about it you know have
you have you outed publicly the man who
did this uh no it's always been a big
secret in our family and the adults and
our family protected him because he was
family and there was so much that went
on with that uh you know but it was
always a dark family secret
that he did this and he is you know just
for the record you've gone on to have
children of your own oh yeah yeah have
five and and I'm assuming no abusive
relationships in your in your now family
I mean just the contrast between you and
Louise women who are abused can find a
way forward they can get away absolutely
and this was this was behavior that
happened inside of that turpan household
which was with the consent of both
parents that much we have been told by
police the Louise began to experiment
tell us about the trip she took to
Alabama you know I'm not sure if she
told any of my other siblings or anybody
else about this trip
I know that when she told me this was a
time when I was always considered as a
teenager the wild child and she had
never experimented in that she had never
smoked a cigarette or drank a drink of
alcohol or anything and close to her
40th birthday or around that time period
she called me and she thought it was
cool that they had you know quit going
to church and that they were didn't
trust the church anymore they were
experimenting with different religions
and at the time she told me that her and
David that the older children were
helping her take care of the younger
children so her and David could kind of
sew those Wild Oats that they didn't so
when she was younger so they had called
me the first time they ever went to a
bar she called me the very first night
she was drunk she was very giggly and
I'll never forget she shortly after that
conversation called me and told me that
and I'm like I said maybe a exclusive
conversation between me and her I don't
know she may have told somebody else but
that it was a very weird thing to mean
that I would never do what she do um she
told me that her and David had met a man
online from Huntsville Alabama and that
they were owner went their way there to
meet him and that she was going to sleep
with him and that David was okay with
that all I know is that cuz I told her I
thought it was a mistake that this was
not you know and all that I know is that
it did happen she went to Alabama David
dropped her off she met this man at a
motel slept with him and what makes it
even worse and even weirder is that
exactly one year to the date of the
anniversary that she did that David she
called me and thought it was funny that
David was taking her back to the exact
same hotel room the exact same hotel
everything the exact same bed that she
slept with this man in so that David
could sleep with her in the same bed now
how long ago was that that was 2009
maybe 2010 2008 ah what do you hope
happens now with the children well
Louise no longer exists to me her and
David are dead to me I have you know the
children I hope that when they come out
from where they're at now our hope is
that they're all can lead some sort of
normal or
happy existence a happy that's baby
obviously you know have never known
happy except maybe the older ones for a
little while but my main hope is that I
can put my arm around women just tell
them that they have family that loves em
that's not deranged that this is what
it's supposed to be like you know I want
them to meet their cousins my kids
louise has never laid eyes on my kids
and you know I've only met in person her
oldest four because the trip stops and
so I've only met the younger ones
through video chat and that was years
ago and there so there's some of them
never even seen except in pictures and
they've never ever met my kids or my
sibling other siblings kids they're in
need of love right now they aren't even
though they have family that loves them
thank you so much best of luck to you
thank you and your family as you get
through this thank you
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