(CNN) — The 17-year-old girl who called police to report her allegedly abusive parents in Perris, California, said the house the family lived in smelled so badly that she could barely breathe, and she thought she and her 12 siblings might need to go to the doctor. And when she struggled to remember the address of the home, the 911 operator asked her if she was around the corner from her house. “Yeah, I think,” the girl said. “I’ve never been out. I don’t go out much.” That chilling 911 call was made public Wednesday as part of a preliminary hearing in the case against David and Louise Turpin, the California couple accused of holding their 13 children captive in a “house of horrors.” Pool Louise Turpin, left, and David Turpin, right, sit in court for a preliminary hearing on June 20, 2018. Prosecutors say the couple beat and tortured their children, kept them chained to their beds and starved them – all while the family dogs were kept clean and well-fed. They were arrested on January 14 after their 17-year-old daughter escaped from a window and called 911 on a deactivated cell phone. The Turpin siblings are comprised of six minors and seven adults, ranging in age from 2 years old to 29. David Turpin, 56, and Louise Turpin, 49, pleaded not guilty to more than 40 charges, including torture, false imprisonment, abuse of a dependent adult and child abuse. David Turpin also pleaded not guilty to one count of lewd conduct with a minor. Despite the horror of the 911 call, the girl’s voice sounded remarkably calm and clear while relating her experience. But the call, as well as police who responded to the scene, provided several disturbing new details from the home and the degree to which the parents controlled their children’s lives. “I can’t breathe because of how dirty the house is,” the Turpin daughter said on the call. “We don’t take baths. I don’t know if we need to go to the doctor.” Accounts of abuse and starvation Other Turpin children told investigators they were abused. A 14-year-old girl said Louise Turpin threw her down the stairs when she was caught in her mom’s room, investigator Brett Rooker of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office testified. “She said she was terrified of her mother,” he said. An 11-year-old girl said that Louise Turpin would often punch them with a closed fist and hit her with an open hand, Riverside County Deputy Sheriff Daniel Brown testified. The girl said that sometimes, her mother pulled her hair so forcefully it would lift her off the ground, Brown said. The girl said she was “always hungry,” he further testified. The children were fed jalapeno baloney sandwiches while the parents ate Jersey Mike’s, pizza and fries, he said. The girl said Louise Turpin would buy apple juice but the children weren’t allowed to drink it. She kept pie in the fridge or pantry until it became moldy and then threw it away. A doctor who treated the family said the 11-year-old girl was in the worst condition when the examined her, Patrick Morris, Supervising Investigator for Riverside County District Attorney, testified. She had a body weight percentile of .01 and her mid arm circumference was equal to that of a 4.5-month-old baby, Morris testified. The doctor said she had psychosocial dwarfism, stunted growth due to living in an environment that is abusive or neglected. The 15-year-old boy had difficulty walking, vitamin D deficiency, and visible scoliosis. He told the doctor that he wanted to kill animals and could predict the future, Morris testified. In their room 20 hours a day 01:50 - Source: CNN DA reveals disturbing details from Turpin family investigation The 17-year-old Turpin daughter who made the 911 call weighed about 97 pounds with a BMI of 2.2% when doctors first examined her, Morris said. In other parts of the call, told the operator that her parents were abusive and had chained up two of her sisters, and that she thought her father had guns in the house. She also said she hadn’t taken a bath in almost a year. Riverside Deputy Manuel Campos, who responded to the 911 call, testified on Wednesday that the girl appeared much younger than 17. “She appears not to bathe regularly,” he also said. “There was odor emitting from her body of one that doesn’t bathe regularly.” The girl was shaking on the call and “scared to death” from the daring escape out of the window, Campos said. She said that she was kept in the room with her sisters for about 20 hours a day, and that she was only allowed to leave the room to eat, use the restroom and brush her teeth, Campos said. If she broke the rules, she would be disciplined in the form of knocking on the head, pulling of hair, or being smacked in the face. After she watched a Justin Bieber video on a cell phone, her mother choked her, she told Campos. In addition to the physical abuse, there was a sexual incident with her father, the girl told police. She said her father pulled her pants down, grabbed her and put her on his lap. She tried to push him away, and pulled her pants up, Campos said. He also tried to force kisses on her mouth, she told Campos, and this happened about 10 times. The girl said her father told her not to tell anyone, Campos said.<doc-sep>EMBED >More News Videos Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin revealed horrific details about the 13 siblings who were allegedly held captive by their parents in Perris. RIVERSIDE, California -- The parents accused of abusing and torturing their children in Perris, Californi a, appeared in court Wednesday for a key hearing, where a judge will weigh whether there is enough evidence for the two to go on trial.David and Louise Turpin appeared in Superior Court in Riverside. The two allegedly starved their children, and in some cases, chained them to their beds.During the court hearing, Deputy Manny Campos spoke on behalf of one of the Turpin children and revealed disturbing details about the kids' squalid living conditions and the physical and sexual abuse some endured.The couple has pleaded not guilty to torture, child abuse and all other charges. David Turpin has also been charged with eight counts of perjury for filing false affidavits certifying that their children were receiving a full-time education in a private day school. He also faces one count of lewd acts on a child.They were arrested after their 17-year-old daughter climbed out of a window to escape the family's Perris home in January and called 911. The case has since drawn international attention.At Wednesday's court hearing, the chilling 911 call was played, and the name of the brave teen who dialed authorities was released for the first time.The teen was able to tell the 911 operator her zip code and said, "I've never been out. ""My parents are abusive. They abuse us, and my two little sisters right now are chained up," she said.When asked by the dispatcher if there's any medication in the house, she responded, "I don't know what medication is." When asked if they go to school, she said "a fake school is set up. I haven't finished first grade, and I'm 17. ""I don't know much about my mother. She doesn't spend time with us, ever," she added. "They only chain us up if we do something we're not supposed to. ""They woke up at night and started crying ... I wanted to call you all so you can help my sisters," the teen told the 911 dispatcher.Authorities have said the Turpin home reeked of human waste, and the evidence of starvation was obvious, with the oldest of 13 siblings weighing just 82 pounds. The children were shackled as punishment, denied food and toys and allowed to do little except write in journals, prosecutors have said.Campos revealed in court that the daughter told him she was allegedly sexually abused by her father when they lived in the nearby city of Murrieta. Campos said the teen told him her father called her over to him, pulled her pants down and put her on his lap. She said she told her father, "I don't like that stuff. "The incident was interrupted when her mother walked upstairs. The teen said her father told her "better not tell anybody what happened," according to Campos.The deputy said the teen who called told him she would be in her room for 20 hours a day: She would wake up around 11 p.m. and go to bed around 3 a.m. The rest of the time she would sleep as part of their schedule. She added that if she left her room, she would get in trouble by her mother.The deputy said the children would eat lunch and dinner every day but never breakfast. Recently, the meals were together as one because they weren't awake long enough to separate the meals.Their diet consisted of sandwiches, burritos and chips, Campos said, adding that she didn't like eating PB&J because she would gag and throw up.She also told the deputy she lived in filth. The room was dirty and smelled so bad that sometimes she couldn't breathe unless she stuck her head out of the window, Campos said.She said her mother would punish her. Those punishments consisted of getting knocked on her head, pulling on her hair, getting hit and smacked in the face, pushed and choked.The deputy said she recalled a time when she was watching a Justin Bieber video, and her mother told her, "Do you want to die? Yes, you do, you want to die. You want to die and go to hell. "The couple is being held on $12 million bail each. If convicted, both could be sentenced to life in prison.----------<doc-sep>A heartbreaking 911 call captures a teen's desperation after escaping the house where she had been allegedly held captive by her parents for several years. Louise and David Turpin, the couple charged with imprisoning and torturing their 13 children inside their California home, appeared in court Wednesday for a hearing, during which the call was played. In a transcript of the call, the teen tells the dispatcher of the horrific conditions she experienced inside the home. "I live in a family of 15 people and my parents are abusive; they abuse us and my two little sisters are chained up," she says. "Sometimes I wake up and I can't breathe because of how dirty the house is. We never take baths." An investigator who interviewed the girl said that she was covered in dirt and seemed terrified, according to the Palm Springs Desert Sun. The girl who made the call is the same teen who kept a secret YouTube channel where she showcased her singing and songwriting talent. The teen escaped through a window of the family home on Jan. 14. Since the children were found, they've been enjoying their freedom, learning to use iPads and watching "Harry Potter" movies for the first time. The Turpin parents face multiple charges in connection with the case. They have pleaded not guilty. 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David and Louise Turpin could face numerous charges, including child abuse, false imprisonment and torture after the latest development in the case involving the California parents accused of keeping their 13 children isolated from the world in nearly unspeakable conditions. The Turpin parents were present at a hearing Wednesday in Riverside County, California, aimed at determining if they should face trial. A 911 call made in secret by the couple's 17-year-old daughter was played at the hearing. The allegations made in the call were harrowing. "I live in a family of 15 people, and our parents are abusive," she said during the call, according to People magazine. The daughter detailed to the 911 operator a life of nearly complete isolation, saying she didn't really understand how streets worked when trying to describe where she lived. "They are abusive," she said, according to People. "And two of my sisters are chained up." According to CNN, prosecutors have alleged the parents—56-year-old David and 49-year-old Louise—would torture, beat and starve the children, while the family dogs were groomed and well-fed. The couple was arrested in January. They have pleaded not guilty to more than 40 charges in total. The 17-year-old daughter was allegedly only able to make the call after getting her hands on a deactivated cellphone. The siblings in the home ranged from age 2 to age 29. The parents are accused of not letting them leave or get jobs and exist in the outside world. During the call the daughter described the home as nearly unlivable. "I can't breathe because of how dirty the house is," she said, via CNN. "We don't take baths. I don't know if we need to go to the doctor." During the call, the daughter reportedly alleged to the 911 operator that two of her sisters and one brother were chained to beds. Time magazine reported that when police showed up to the home, two girls—11 and 14 years old respectively—had been quickly removed from their chains but the 22-year-old son remained chained down. And according to the accusations made in the court, the act of chaining down children was not an uncommon thing in the household. The allegations that came up in court were disturbing, the children reportedly being denied food, mental stimulation, sanitary conditions or anything outside of being allowed to write in a journal. They allegedly spent much of their time locked in rooms with little freedom to socialize. Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Manuel Campos testified that when a daughter was caught watching a Justin Bieber video, she was choked and threatened with death. "Yes you do, yes you do, you do, you want to die," the mother said, according to Campos, via Time. "You want to die and go to hell." The hearing was scheduled to continue Thursday.