The so-called California House of Horrors, where David and Louise Turpin are accused of imprisoning and torturing 12 of their children, has gone up for sale.
The home at 160 Muir Woods Road in Perris where the siblings were rescued from in January went up for auction on December 29 and currently has a bid of $250,001.
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The house must meet an undisclosed reserve price before it is sold. As noted by The Press-Enterprise, the listing page on hudsonandmarshall.com makes no mention of the alleged atrocities.
The Turpins have been indicted on a string of charges after the siblings were found padlocked to their beds on January 14. A 17-year-old girl managed to escape the home and alert authorities.
The parents are accused of chaining the siblings to their beds for months at a time, only letting them shower once a year, and starving them.
Police said at the time that the siblings, aged two to 29, were so malnourished that officers were shocked to discovered seven of them were adults, with the eldest weighing just 82 pounds at the time of her rescue.
California state law requires that those selling a property only need to disclose if there have been any deaths at the property within the previous three years, or if it had been exposed to a controlled substance, such as a methamphetamine lab.
Scott Beloian, owner of Westcoe Realtors in Riverside, said he hopes the sellers will eventually disclose the house's history to any potential buyer.
"We've always been, if you have to ask the question, should I disclose, you should err on the side of probably so," Beloian told The Free-Press. "I would like to think that the seller is going to disclose to the buyer what happened in the house."
The auction for the 2,386 square feet home, which was foreclosed in November, ends on January 2.
The Turpins face life imprisonment if convicted on total of 88 felony charges of torture, false imprisonment, child abuse and cruelty to a dependent adult in relation to their children.
David Turpin also faces eight additional counts of perjury after allegedly telling the California Department of Education that his children were receiving a full-time education in a private day school inside his home.
The couple have been held in custody since their arrest and are due to go on trial to face the allegations in September.
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