Should The Turpins Receive Life In Prison

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Child abuse is the physical, mental, or sexual assault on a child. Child abuse is a serious crime that may be undetectable as seen in this case. Recently, a local media station reported on a child abuse case that occurred in California. Thirteen kids were held captive by their parents in horrendous living conditions. For this reason, Louis and David Turpin should receive life in prison because they starved, isolated, and chained their children to their beds.
There are many reasons why the Turpins should be charged and sentenced life in prison. The first reason is that they starved their children and cause them to be malnourished. When a child is not fed over a long period of time it causes them to become malnourished. This affects them drastically …show more content…

The Turpin children were allowed to bathe only once a year and if they washed their hand above their wrist, they would be chained up as punishment for playing with water. This abuse caused the children to be psychologically damaged. The older children were too scared to escape because they feared for the lives of their siblings. Being chained up for supposedly misbehaving, not being able to shower for a year, and being beaten and choked would not only affect full-fledged adults, but it would severely traumatize a child. A logical appeal, in this case, would be that the actions of the Turpins are morally wrong. Parents are supposed to care for their children not mistreat them or torture them. These parents action caused six children and seven adults a great deal of pain. Now the children are forced to adapt to a world that they are not accustomed to. A second emotional appeal is that the victims felt obligated to stay with their family. Since the abusers, in this case, were the victim’s parents their children probably felt as though they had no other choice but to stay (Park). The constant threats, punishments, and manipulation that the children face daily was enough to discourage them from finding

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