When the news first broke about the Turpins my mom brought it up in conversation and i was so convinced she was talking about the Rods.Anyone ever heard of the Turpin Family? They were a fundie family with 13 kids whose story has a lot of eerie parallels to this bunch's -- especially regarding how the kids were treated.
Unlike the Rodrigues clan, they kept under the radar for the most part, and dodged CPS and law enforcement more successfully. Eventually one of the daughters escaped their prison-like house, and notified authorities, leading to the arrest of the parents and their eventual conviction for multiple counts of child abuse. The kids were all placed in special care, as they were too physically and psychologically damaged to be in regular foster homes.
Here's a good book about the case. Again -- lots of disturbing similarities to the Rodrigues tribe.
Big fundie family with 13 offspring?
Fat parents?
Who starved, sometimes physically confined the children?
"Homeschool" allows them to keep their children totally isolated and dependent?
Moved frequently to avoid CPS?
Filthy, crowded house with no toys?
Then she mentioned the Las Vegas and Disney trips. No, the Rods would never go to "Sin City" for a quickie Elvis wedding, or go to Disney where the gays are allowed to roam free. Double horror at realizing there was another group of emaciated uneducated neglected fundie children being locked up by their insane parents, and that the Rodlets were not free.
Oh, you're selling Jill short! It wasn't just a SEVERE stroke. She also had cysts in her brain and agenesis of the corpus collosum. Jill will never talk about any problems stemming from this because it doesn't suit her narrative. She instead claims the evil abortion doctors wanted her to kill her precious tater but god is SO FAITHFUL and now Janessa is healed and hitting all her milestones! Debi Pearl even included Janessa's story in a book.Haha look at Jill, posing with the product she took while pregnant with Janessa, who by total coincidence had a SEVERE in utero stroke. She's now four years old and we still never really see her walking - someone is always carrying her, or she's in a wagon.
None of these conditions is a death sentence like Jill wants to claim to bolster the miracle factor, some kids really do live fairly normal lives with no corpus callosum and severing it is a last resort medical treatment for SEVERE intractable epilepsy. They've shown some scattered evidence that the youngest member of this righteous baker's dozen is capable of walking unassisted and singing, so maybe she really did manage to escape the worst of it. (Hollow victory when you remember she's still living with her family.)



















