Children of Turpin family donate money, toys and clothes from around the world.

Photo: Facebook / David-Louise Turpin

Over $ 120 000 was donated to help 13 children in California, whose parents chained them to their beds and fed them once a day.

The Riverside University Health System Foundation, who collects donations for the family, received an 1 514 donation until Tuesday morning, spokeswoman Kim Throne said. According to the Foundation, people from all over the world also send toys, blankets and clothes for affected brothers and sisters.

Children of Turpins aged 2 to 29 years were held by their parents in a private home in Perris, California, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, the sheriff’s Riverside department reported.

Detect the captives succeeded after the 17-year-old girl ran away from home on Sunday, January 14. She called the police with a mobile phone, which she managed to take with her. Soon, the police found a teenage girl who looked 10 years old. Then she told the officers about her 12 brothers and sisters, chained inside the house.

The police arrived at the house of the Turpin family and saw a shocking picture - in the twilight, in a foul-smelling room there were children chained to their beds. Their parents could not give a clear explanation of what is happening.

David Turpin and his wife Louise Turpin did not plead guilty to torture.

About 20 people, including nurses and psychologists, are proposing to take children, including adults, and raise them together, said Mary Parks, a spokeswoman for the Department of Community Social Services at Riverside County.

“People from all over the country are offering to adopt them,” Parks said. Proposals came from New Jersey, Texas and California.

Parks said that she could not discuss the status of children, but added that children who are taken from their parents are in any case under the responsibility of the social services agency.

The agency tends to place children with relatives and leave the brothers and sisters together, she said. If none of the relatives wants to take over their upbringing, they will be placed in a foster family.

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