Anyone watch the Diane Sawyer interview with Turpin children

So heartbreaking to watch. She was so brave to come out and find help. I was shocked at the words they didn’t know like injuries, medications and bruises. Diane Sawyer did an amazing job interviewing them. I feel bad for all the kids/adults because it sounds like they are still struggling, trying to find housing and transportation. The state of California definitely failed them in regards to their after care.

Their parents were sick. Probably the children of sick people, who were the children of sick people.....

They were adherents of the Quiverfull movement and Pentecostalism. According to David's parents, the couple kept having children because "God called on them" to do so.

Sick.

abc7.com/perris-couple-turpins-children-shackled-torture/2950254/

Not the first time. It is a systemic problem. I also do not have anything nice to say in regards to CCS.

I saw part of it and it was heart-wrenching. Before the end I was thinking "I really hope they have a good support network because I can see these women being taken advantage of." Then they told the rest of the story where these kids have been completely failed. If a case with this much attention so wholly fails the children, just imagine how terrible things are for kids that no one knows about?

In law school, I worked in our child advocacy clinic as an ad litem for kids in foster care and our kids were the "lucky" ones because they had a pack of young, earnest students checking up on caseworkers, working to get the kids good placements, reviewing their medical records to make sure they were being treated properly (one of my kids was constantly drugged up on trazodone because she was "difficult" and we put an end to that and got her moved to another foster home).

I just watched. My first thought, religion is the root of all evil.

The system is so unbelievably broken. How horrific that these kids got out of that home and were completely abused again. I really hope this exposure of the system makes positive change. 

I wish they’d start their own go fund me so they can get that money themselves. 

What happened to those kids is horrific. The trauma they faced compounded by neglect and abuse in the system is unbelievable.

abcnews.go.com/US/years-rescue-turpin-children-living-squalor-donations-pledges/story?id=81254457

I thought the same thing. Those two girls seem so much younger than they are. I was shocked when they said the older one is 33. So heartbreaking...it makes you wonder if they will ever mature and really "catch up" emotionally.

I cried my eyes out through most of the show. To know those disgusting parents hoarded food and toys and clothing while they starved their children and made them wear filthy clothes made me feel sick to my stomach. And the way the mom said to the kids, "your dad and I will be ok". UGH The horror they put those kids through is so mind boggling, and I hope they both live out the rest of their lives in agonizing misery.

And to know that the systems that are supposed to help them have let them down, that is disgusting too. To know they were "rescued" but still don't have enough food or anywhere to live is so beyond awful. Those two girls are so brave for coming forward this way, and I can only hope that the attention from this show will improve their lives and futures.

I was haunted by this story at the time it broke, and I know I will be haunted for a long time after watching 20/20 last night. I hope it haunts every person who has let them down, especially those who were/are in a position to help them.

Some of them have actually been homeless at times, and it was said that they mostly live in bad parts of the city and don't have enough to eat. They had a caseworker who was supposed to be managing things for them, because there was actually quite a bit of money to help them, but the case manager even denied one of the older boys a bicycle when he needed transportation. The ending of the show was so sad.

I hope the state steps in and gets them the help that they need. They need so much- housing, food, clothing, life skills, counseling, etc

I know. That is what is so heartbreaking. The younger kids may have more of a chance to eventually live a somewhat "normal" life, but even some of them ended up in abusive foster homes. The older ones...I fear the damage runs too deep. They didn't mention if they are receiving therapy, but if they don't even have adequate food and places to live, I doubt they are getting the intensive therapy they need.

The really infuriating part is that their parents are getting better health and dental care, and the food might be better. They also have a known place to sleep.

It’s was a heartbreaking ending to everything they went through. There is some shady shit going on with the money collected and controlled by the county. That guardian should be cancelled, I know she was let go from the position.

I really hope this puts pressure on the county and state to fix their shit.

I believe everything the kids say happened to them.

But some stuff makes me scratch my head. How did Jordan know what social media was, but not what a sidewalk was? She could post videos of herself singing but not call 911?

Also, the Vegas thing was actually two different videos from two different occasions. Watch the wife’s hair change color and length and Elvis’ jacket change colors. We know from when the case first broke that those freaks did the Vegas thing more than once. Why did 20/20 misrepresent it as one video/event? The manipulation of that made me suspicious of 20/20, not the kids. Like why was that manipulation necessary?

They indicated that they were given by the parents to the older "trusted" children to help execute instructions when the parents were away from home.