Anna M. Phillips, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Neighbors stand outside the day after a Perris husband and wife were taken into custody on suspicion of torture and child abuse at a home on 100 Block of Muir Woods Road, in Perris, Calif., on Jan. 15, 2018. Inside the house, officers found "several children shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings," the statement said. The youngest was 2 years old. Like their sister, the 12 siblings in the house appeared to police to be minors and malnourished, but authorities determined seven of them were in fact adults from the ages of 18 to 29, police said. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

In Calif., house of horrors hidden in plain sight

by Paloma Esquivel Los Angeles Times, Hailey Branson-Potts Los Angeles Times, and Anna M. Phillips Los Angeles TimesJanuary 17, 2018

PERRIS, Calif. — It was usually after midnight when Mike Clifford spotted the children from the house across the street. Some nights, he’d see about six children — none of whom looked older than 15 — getting into a passenger van with their father and…

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In Calif., house of horrors hidden in plain sight

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