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Podcast: True Crime Society
Episode: Decades of Abuse | The Turpin Family
Description: In this episode, we will be discussing horrific instances of child abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
In 2018, a brave 17 year-old managed to escape the home where she had been held captive her entire life. She found a deactivated cell-phone that she took with her on her escape, and she called 911. She told police that she had been kept locked in a room for 20 hours a day and was allowed one shower per year.Â
When police arrived, they found TWELVE additional children locked in the house. Human feces, dead animals and rotten food covered the entire property. This was not a...