Parents of Captive Siblings to Make Court Appearance in California

David Allen Turpin (L) and Louise Ann Turpin in booking photos provided by the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in Riverside County, Calif., Jan. 15, 2018. Riverside County Sheriff's Department/Handout via Reuters

PERRIS, Calif.—A Southern California couple accused of keeping their 13 children captive and malnourished in the family’s squalid suburban home were scheduled to make a first court appearance on Thursday.

David Turpin, 57, and his wife Louise Turpin, 49, were arrested earlier this week after their emaciated 17-year-old daughter climbed out a window of the family’s home in Perris, 70 miles (113 km) east of Los Angeles, and called the 911 emergency number on a cell phone.