Turpin sisters describe living in 'house of horrors': 'I thought I was going to die'

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The mother she used to adore started having violent mood swings when she was still very little, she said. Watch the Diane Sawyer special event, "Escape From A House Of Horror," on Friday, Nov. 19 at 9 p.m. "Over this last year, I have learned a lot about mental health and everything. It was a really rough year," Turpin said. "The last few months it's been really good because I've really learned so much about mental health [and] why everything has affected me the way it affected me."

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"Sometimes, I still have nightmares of things that have happened, like my siblings getting chained up or beaten," said one of the Turpins' sons in an impact statement he read to the courtroom. Hestrin said the abuse the couple’s children faced intensified over time, as the family moved first from the Fort Worth area in Texas, in 2010, to Murrieta, California, and then to Perris in 2014. “What started out as neglect became severe, pervasive, prolonged child abuse,” Hestrin said. Uffer told PEOPLE the adult children — five girls and two boys between the ages of 18 and 29 — “are actually pretty stable” considering what they have been through. “We are keeping them all together; we have tried to recreate a positive family environment for them so they are with their siblings, and they appear to be doing well in that environment,” he said. Following their discoveries at the Turpin home, authorities took parents David and Louise (left and right) into custody and charged both with a dozen counts of torture, among other criminal accusations, to which they pleaded not guilty.

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Within a year she had caught up to high school junior level — and at 18, she entered a school building for the first time. "I'm not ready to go into details about what happened to me in that home. I was very traumatized, and it's been a very scary journey," she says quietly. "It was really hard to understand the first situation [with my parents]. Then going into another, that was just really, really hard. You have all these questions and you just don't get the answer." For the first time in her life, Jordan Turpin has her own safe haven.

They were mainly kept in their rooms except for meals, which had been reduced to one per day, a combination of lunch and dinner. "I never intended for any harm to come to my children," the statement said. "I'm sorry if I've done anything to cause them harm. I'm glad we were able to resolve this case without my children being forced to testify."

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There was clearly a lasting rift between Louise and her parents, presumably from the trust being broken so viciously and early on in her life. His parents, James and Betty Turpin, told ABC News that their son had become a computer engineer upon graduating from university. The 1984 Bugle yearbook lists him as a senior electrical engineering major, and as a member of the electrical and computer engineering honor society, Eta Kappa Nu. The abusive patriarch of the Turpin family had a rather promising childhood and early career, Collegiate Times reported. As a Virginia Tech University alumni who studied computer engineering, he reportedly worked for both Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics before retiring in 2012.

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The siblings also have a collective lack of “mentorship,” he added, to deal with life as well as seeing their pain sensationalized in the media, Zektser said. Several nonprofit agencies — including one founded by Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was famously abducted as an 11-year-old in 1991 and held captive for 18 years — have raised a “substantial” amount of money on their behalf. Jordan hopes to have a family of her own one day — she wants three kids and 10 dogs — but for now, she’s enjoying being a mom to two Pomeranians. Jordan hopes to become a motivational speaker and dreams of writing books. She says she also wants to use her voice to improve the “broken” foster care system. "I hope and pray my children can stay close to each other since their mother and father can't be there for them," he said.

It was Jordan Turpin who managed to escape on Jan. 14, 2018, and call 911, freeing herself and her siblings from the family’s house of horrors in Perris, California. On Jan. 14, 2018, 17-year-old Jordan escaped from her family’s home in Perris, Calif. and called authorities. After police arrived, they discovered that Jordan's parents, David and Louise, had been severely abusing their 13 children to varying degrees for years. The Haddonfield, Illinois residence where a young Michael Myers murdered his sister in John Carpenter's original Halloween (1978) is actually located in South Pasadena. Abandoned at the time of the filming, it was later remodeled and moved a few blocks north from its original location.

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“We are as hurt and shocked and angry and disappointed as everybody else,” Teresa Robinette, Louise’s sister (right), said through tears in an interview with NBC News. The Turpin daughters described brutal violence and being deprived of food, sleep, hygiene, education and health care for years. David and Louise Turpin eloped when the patriarch was 24 years old and his wife 16.

In November, she opened up to PEOPLE about her past year and hopes for the future. Her siblings were distressed by their mother’s behavior, which prompted Jordan to make her call earlier than she planned. "The night I left was not expected. I was pushed to that point. I literally thought we were gonna die," Jordan recalled to PEOPLE.

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