Thirteen children and young adults were found held captive by their parents in their Perris, California home.

A 17-year-old girl escaped through the window of her bedroom, on Sunday, January 14 to tell the police of the abuse she and her siblings had endured. Officials said that even though she was 17, she was malnourished to the point that she looked 10 years old. Her parents, David and Louise Turpin, had kept her and her 12 siblings, ranging from ages two to 29, chained to furniture around the house, surrounded in their own feces, according to CNN. The children were given one meal a day, were allowed only one or two showers a year, and were punished for washing their hands above their wrists, for “playing with water.” The children had been planning this escape for two years. The children’s names have not been released.

“I just got a pit in my stomach. I just felt really badly for what the children had gone through,” said Maria Bucci, Rochester mother of two. “I feel like these are two individuals who are mentally ill,” added Bucci.

David and Louise Turpin are being charged with seven counts of adult abuse, six counts of child abuse, and 12 counts of false imprisonment. Additionally, David was charged with one count of a lewd act by force on a child under the age of 14. The Turpins have not been charged for any offenses against their youngest child, a two-year-old, as he was treated with proper care. If they are found guilty on all charges, the Turpins can face 94 years to life in prison. Their bail has been set at 13 million dollars each, one million for each child.

The neighbors reported that they rarely saw the Turpin children, and noted the last time they were seen outside of the home was in 2015, doing yard work. When the children realized that they were noticed, they reportedly froze, stopped working, and walked back inside the home, according to a neighbor.

The abuse was apparently so severe that the oldest of the children, a 29-year-old, weighed just 82 pounds, a sign of severe undernourishment. It is reported that the Turpin’s would put out food on the counter such as pie and cake, but they would not allow their children to eat it to torture them.

“I hope that they can receive help and recover from this trauma,” says Lynbrook mother Joanne Grasso, “especially be able to trust again and maybe understand that their parents are mentally ill.”

Currently, all 13 children are being treated in the hospital, including re-feeding to address their chronic malnutrition and starvation.

It has also been reported, Elizabeth Jane Flores, one of the children’s aunt, through a Good Morning America (GMA) interview, that Louise Turpin cut her children off from the outside world. She also stated, “I want to reach out to the kids. I want them to know that for years we begged to Skype, we begged to see them, the whole family.” Their psychological recovery from this trauma is just beginning.