Riverside County Sheriff's Department via Reuters A couple in California was charged with torture after their thirteen malnourished children were rescued from a house on Monday. Some of the children, ranging in age from 2 to 29, were found chained to beds. Police rescued the siblings after a 17-year-old girl escaped from the house and alerted authorities. (Reuters) - Thirteen malnourished siblings, ranging in age from 2 to 29, were rescued by police in California from a house where some of them had been chained to beds, and their parents have been charged with torture, officials said on Monday. Police made the discovery after a 17-year-old girl escaped the house in Perris, about 70 miles (113 km) east of Los Angeles, and used a cellular phone she had found in the house to call them, the Riverside County Sheriff's Office said in a statement released online. "Deputies located what they believed to be 12 children inside the house, but were shocked to discover that seven of them were actually adults," police said in a statement.