![]() ![]() "Because I had to make sure that if I left, we wouldn't go back." ![]() "I was telling them everything: We don't go to school, we live in filth, how we starve and all this stuff," Jordan said. Eventually, the dispatcher helped guide the shaky and confused girl to a stop sign where she could wait for a deputy to arrive. Jordan reached a dispatcher who kept her talking as she wandered the neighborhood. "I was trying to dial 911, but I couldn't even get my thumb to press the buttons because I was shaking so bad." She was standing in the road, she said, because "I didn't even know about the sidewalks." Once outside, Jordan didn't know where to turn. WATCH | Turpin sisters who escaped 'house of horrors' speak out: 'I thought I was going to die'ĭeputy's body camera shows the makeshift bed Jordan Turpin created before she escaped the family's house on Jan. "If we went to Oklahoma, there was a big chance that some of us would have died," Jordan said of her severely malnourished and frail siblings. She and Jennifer heard her mother scream that the family was moving to Oklahoma. 14, 2018, Jordan realized time was running out. " get pictures, anything to prove so they can't think you're a teenager looking for attention," Jennifer said. Jordan and another sister tried calling a taxi service to drive them to another state, and then they discussed something Jordan overheard on the rare instances her brother secretly watched the TV show "Cops": Calling 911, and making sure they had proof to back up their claims for police. ![]() Jennifer said she tried to draw a map of their neighborhood based on the few times she had been allowed outside. Jordan eventually decided her best option would be to climb out of her bedroom window and call 911. Jennifer Turpin is seen here during an exclusive interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer for "20/20" on Hulu. SEE ALSO: Turpin children describe 1st experience knowing they were free from 'house of horrors' I was right that this situation is bad.'" I was so happy to hear him say that because I was like, 'I was right. "He was like, 'This isn't right, you should call the cops'. "I did tell him that I didn't really go to school, and I wasn't allowed to go in the backyard or front yard and that I'm always kept inside, and I told him how we eat and how we're not allowed to get out of bed," she said. One day, she said someone commented on one of her posts to ask why she was always inside and awake at night. She said she watched Bieber's interviews, movies and used it to make little videos to post on social media. The smartphone became a critical escape for Jordan. "I started realizing that there is a different whole world out there. "I don't know where we would be if we didn't watch Justin Bieber," Jordan said. It opened up a whole new world she had never seen before, and eventually she discovered Justin Bieber's music videos. In 2016, Jordan said she got a hold of one of her parents' old smartphones. ![]()
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