Byrd is a controversial figure with a record of mishandling firearms, including once leaving a loaded pistol in a Congressional Visitor Center bathroom. Roberts said Byrd's decision to fire his weapon on January 6 indicated his unfitness for duty.
>Byrd is a controversial figure with a record of mishandling firearms, including once leaving a loaded pistol in a Congressional Visitor Center bathroom. Roberts said Byrd's decision to fire his weapon on January 6 indicated his unfitness for duty.
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https://nypost.com/2021/11/20/turpin-kids-horror-house-rescue-shown-on-bodycam-footage/
Bodycam footage of ‘Horror House’ raid shows cops rescue abused Turpin kids
Newly-released police body camera footage shows the moment cops raided the California house of horrors where an abusive couple imprisoned, beat and starved their 13 children.
The heartbreaking video was shown for the first time on ABC News Friday night, during an episode of 20/20 where two of the siblings, Jennifer and Jordan Turpin, detailed the staggering abuse at the hands of their parents.
Police responded to the Turpin home in Perris, Calif. Jan. 14, 2018, after Jordan, then-17, courageously snuck out and managed to call 911 on her brother’s mostly disabled cellphone.
Officers knocked on the door of the squalid house for more than two minutes before parents David and Louise Turpin answered.
“We were just in bed,” Louise Turpin said, as cops informed her they were there for a welfare check after getting a call from her daughter, the bodycam footage shows.
Once inside, officers encountered mounds of garbage, feces, moldy food, and swarms of dirty, pale and extremely skinny children.
In one filthy bedroom, a cop discovered two frail girls, bruised and caked in dirt.
“Hi sweetheart. Hi girls. Can I see your wrists?,” the officer can be heard saying. “We’re here to help you.”
Inside another room, a boy was seen shackled to a bed where he had been restrained for weeks. Officers scrambled to free him — as they arrested the parents and asked them where to find the key to the chains, the footage showed.
“Is that what this is about?” Louise Turpin was heard asking the cops.
“Well, that’s part of it, definitely,” an officer responded.
The badly abused siblings, ages 2-29, were taken to a hospital where they received food and emotional support. It was the first time Jennifer Turpin felt free.
“In the hospital, music was playing and I got up… and danced,” she remembered.
Her remarks came during a joint interview with younger sister Jordan Turpin, 21, that marked the first time any of the siblings have spoken publicly since they were rescued two hours after Jordan’s 911 call.
Their monstrous parents each pleaded guilty to 14 counts of torture, false imprisonment and related charges in February 2019, and were later sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
Jennifer Turpin, the eldest of the siblings, recounted during the interview with famed TV journalist Diane Sawyer how she was pulled out of school in the third grade, and enrolled with her siblings in a sham home school that listed their dad as principal.
Her parents — who ate well, went on shopping sprees and disappeared for weeks at a time to party while leaving the children in filth with little food — blamed the abuse on religion.
“They literally used the bible to explain their behavior to us,” Jennifer said, describing how she and her siblings were thrown across rooms, put in cages and beaten with sticks for disobeying their parents or eating their food.
“I was afraid to do one little thing wrong. I did one little thing wrong I was going to be beaten. And not just beaten but beat till I bled,” she said through tears.
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>“They literally used the bible to explain their behavior to us,”
Public records show the couple filed for bankruptcy in 2011. David listed his employer as defense contractor Northrop Grumman.
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