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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:28 PM Jan 2018

Teens Escape Leads to Discovery of 13 Victims Held Captive in Perris Home

http://ktla.com/2018/01/15/kids-found-chained-to-beds-after-teens-escape-leads-to-discovery-of-12-malnourished-victims-held-captive-in-perris-home-sheriffs-dept/

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Teens Escape Leads to Discovery of 13 Victims Held Captive in Perris Home (Original Post) shenmue Jan 2018 OP

How lucky she was able to break loose and get help! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2018 #1

Sad - Jail time too good for these parents Laf.La.Dem. Jan 2018 #2

What is wrong with people? lkinwi Jan 2018 #3

That had to have been going on for years. How could they get by with it while living in Frustratedlady Jan 2018 #4

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,615 posts)

1. How lucky she was able to break loose and get help!

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:33 PM

Jan 2018

Those "parents" deserve to have the book thrown at them.

They were sorely lacking in even adequate parenting skills.

I hope the group will eventually be OK.

Laf.La.Dem.

(2,943 posts)

2. Sad - Jail time too good for these parents

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:34 PM

Jan 2018

lkinwi

(1,477 posts)

3. What is wrong with people?

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:44 PM

Jan 2018

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)

4. That had to have been going on for years. How could they get by with it while living in

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 06:58 PM

Jan 2018

a neighborhood? The mental abuse will surely never be erased, let alone the damage from starvation and immobility. They would be little more than animals.

Imagine finding people you thought were children that turned out to be in their 20s...up to 29.

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