Daily Mail: Two healthy dogs were recovered from the California House of Horrors this week as the couple accused of torturing their 13 children for years inside pleaded not guilty to 75 charges.
David, 57, and Louise Turpin, 49, denied the charges not long after they were announced by the Riverside County District Attorney on Thursday afternoon. They are set to appear in court again on February 23. The pair were brought into court via a tunnel from the nearby Robert Presley Detention Center where they have been held since being transferred from Perris on Monday morning.
Early Sunday, authorities found their toddler to adult-aged children malnourished and shackled inside the filthy home alongside two happy and healthy one-year-old Maltese puppies.
Perris city spokesman Joe Vargo said in a statement Wednesday that the dogs, one black and one white, were in 'good' health condition - despite the fact that the couple's abused children were noticeably starved and taunted with pies they weren't allowed to eat. As the children are currently in recovery at two California hospitals, the dogs have been placed up for adoption....read more>>>...