Media Coverage
The LA Times
"10-year-old’s torture, abuse was ignored for years, Orange County lawsuit claims"
Domingo Flores laughed when Anaheim police officers visited his apartment to check on his 10-year-old daughter. The officers didn’t know it, but the girl was zip-tied to a bed in a back room at the time, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office. For years, the girl’s father and stepmother, Mayra Chavez, tortured the girl and her older sister, authorities said.
ABC News
"4 years after rescue, some Turpin children still 'living in squalor' despite donations, pledges of support."
After suffering unspeakable abuses and deprivation at the hands of their parents, the Turpin siblings -- it seemed -- were on the path to a new life: a future with the resources needed to start fresh, to make up for the years they were locked away from the world.