HOUSE OF HORRORS SURVIVOR JORDAN TURPIN: MY LIFE NOW

The brave young woman who escaped her parents' abusive home and saved her 12 siblings shares her story of resilience and survival

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Desperate to help three of her 12 siblings who were chained to their beds, Jordan Turpin escaped. On a Sunday morning in January 2018, the emaciated then-17year-old crawled out a window of her parents' Perris, Calif., home, dialed 911 on a deactivated cell phone and told the dispatcher she and her brothers and sisters were being abused. "We live in filth, and sometimes I wake up and I can't breathe because of how dirty the house is. We don't take baths," Jordan said. When deputies arrived on the scene, they discovered the malnourished, traumatized Turpin children, ages 2 to 29. They were taken to a local hospital, and their parents, David, 62, and Louise, 56, were arrested.