HOUSE OF HORRORS SURVIVOR JORDAN TURPIN: MY LIFE NOW

The brave young woman who escaped her parents' abusive home and saved her 12 siblings shares her story of resilience and survival

Desperate to help three of her 12 siblings who were chained to their beds, Jordan Turpin escaped. On a Sunday morning in January 2018, the emaciated then-17year-old crawled out a window of her parents' Perris, Calif., home, dialed 911 on a deactivated cell phone and told the dispatcher she and her brothers and sisters were being abused. "We live in filth, and sometimes I wake up and I can't breathe because of how dirty the house is. We don't take baths," Jordan said. When deputies arrived on the scene, they discovered the malnourished, traumatized Turpin children, ages 2 to 29. They were taken to a local hospital, and their parents, David, 62, and Louise, 56, were arrested.