New York Post

Raffle for torture clan dogs

- Natalie Musumeci, with Wires

The California city where 13 children were tortured by their parents will hold a raffle to adopt the two dogs that received better care than the kids.

Officials said David and Louise Turpin’s two female maltese mixes are leash-trained and appear healthy and friendly. They were seized by authoritie­s from the couple accused of shackling and starving their children, who range in age from 2 to 29.

Animal-care workers want the pups adopted together.

The dogs — a white one and a black one named Fluffy — are each about a year old, according to officials in Perris, Calif.

Interested residents are advised to contact the city of Perris until Jan. 26, officials said, noting that the dogs will be spayed and immunized prior to being placed in a new home.

The depraved Turpin parents were busted this week on torture charges after their malnourish­ed 17-year-old daughter escaped their Southern California home and alerted authoritie­s to the nightmare going on inside the residence.

Meanwhile, the sister of the sicko mom said she and her sibling also endured an abusive childhood, according to a report.

Elizabeth Flores detailed in a series of books that she co-authored how she was sexually abused by a family member and how she watched her mother get “beaten and raped,” the Sun reported.

Flores, 41, who said this week that she has not had regular contact with sister Louise Turpin or her family in nearly two decades, wrote how she was terrified throughout her childhood.

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