Family of 13 brothers and sisters shackled inside their house for years

[XtremelyBaneful]

The 13 starving siblings held captive in a California house hardly ever saw the sun and were allowed, a prosecutor said Thursday, to eat only one rationed meal a day and shower just once a year.

They were allegedly beaten, choked and shackled to their beds with no access to a bathroom for months at a time for supposed offenses like "playing with water" when they washed their hands.

Their parents would buy toys, the prosecutor said, but not let them play with them or even take them out of the packaging. They would make pumpkins pies and not let the hungry children eat them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...-siblings-allowed-eat-once-day-shower-n838671

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...rture-brought-13-kids-along-when-they-n838026

 

[Lily Adler]

I'm shocked to learn their real ages.

 

[Lencho01]

I read about this earlier. Didn't see pics of the kids, but they weren't kidding about them looking much younger than they actually were.

 

[squeekness]

I'd thought this was a "before" photo when they really were kids. So very sad.

 

[Sawyer]

This isn't going to do much to curb my perception of people with more than, like, five kids as being psychopaths.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

You don't want to judge a book by it's cover but I mean... Yeah you look at the two parents and there's something off there.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

https://youtu.be/w5Mw-AgH3jc

 

[BrollySupersj]

Please give them life in prison. PLEASE.

 

[Lasirius]

https://youtu.be/w5Mw-AgH3jc

Disturbing, especially after having read the news story.

 

[Iceman]

This really is a crazy and sad story. Get them in jail for life asap.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

This really is a crazy and sad story. Get them in jail for life asap.

they pleaded not guilty

 

[Flint Marko]

Crazy to think something like this could be happening any where.

 

[ludovica]

https://youtu.be/w5Mw-AgH3jc

I can only wonder how those children view the outside world...
I can not phatom the parents being mentally sane, they may have to be punished but I'm at a loss here.

 

[ludovica]

Crazy to think something like this could be happening any where.

Yeah, the first reaction is understandably to disbelieve the neighbours did not have any chance to catch that something was way off, but then one has to wonder how much they know about the private life of most of their own neighbours or coworkers.
I'm scared, I think.

 

[Flint Marko]

Yeah, the first reaction is understandably to disbelieve the neighbours did not have any chance to catch that something was way off, but then one has to wonder how much they know about the private life of most of their own neighbours or coworkers.
I'm scared, I think.

I don't know my neighbors at all. One of them could be a serial killer with a torture dungeon and I'd have no idea.

 

[Iceman]

they pleaded not guilty

Hopefully this can be over with asap and those kids can get decent care.

 

[terry78]

**** is this ****.

 

[Guts]

Crazy to think something like this could be happening any where.

Yeah, the first reaction is understandably to disbelieve the neighbours did not have any chance to catch that something was way off, but then one has to wonder how much they know about the private life of most of their own neighbours or coworkers.
I'm scared, I think.

I don't know my neighbors at all. One of them could be a serial killer with a torture dungeon and I'd have no idea.

The cases of Blanche Monnier, Sylvia Likens, and this are definite examples of how you don't know what type of people your neighbors are.

 

[Iceman]

I can only wonder how those children view the outside world...
I can not phatom the parents being mentally sane, they may have to be punished but I'm at a loss here.

I think the mother was also abused as a child. Read something yesterday about it.

 

[3rdstone]

Damn, such a sad story.

 

[Sawyer]

they pleaded not guilty

Considering how I've seen the mother's behavior at the time of their arrest described, that's not shocking.

 

[BrollySupersj]

they pleaded not guilty

Oh Christ, I can't wait for the defense on this one.

 

[Jh7058622]

Insanity most likely...

 

[squeekness]

If it gets the kids out of their hands, good enough.

 

[BrollySupersj]

Insanity most likely...

Ha! Yeah right. No these two people are evil. There's no denying it. They deserve the maximum possible sentence the courts can muster.