For Calif. couple arrested after kids found chained, home-schooling kept spotlight away
by Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times
Jan 17, 2018
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Days after law enforcement authorities found a dozen siblings locked up in a foul-smelling, dark home in Riverside County, the discovery is focusing new scrutiny on California's loose home-schooling regulations and raising questions about whether they contributed to the children's prolonged neglect.
Arrested on nine counts of torture and child endangerment, David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, have so far offered no public insight into why they shut their 13 children inside their home in
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