THE Turpin children are still struggling to adapt to life in the outside world six years after they escaped from their parents’ house of horrors, a lawyer for the siblings says.
Making matters worse for six of the 13 Turpin kids is the “double whammy” of trauma they suffered after being placed in the care of physically and mentally abusive foster parents after their rescue, attorney Elan Zektser told The U.S. Sun.
“Some of the kids will tell you that what they experienced in the foster home was even worse than what they experienced at the hands of their parents,” Zektser alleged.
“The thing that kills me most is that when they were in the Turpin home, they were told they didn’t deserve to be like everyone else, that they were bad kids, bad people – that’s what their parents put on them.