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13 children ranging ages  of the  13 are 2 to 29 are found chained to their beds by their parents. Finally found and and helped

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For decades, Elizabeth Flores begged to see her nieces and nephews. Even Skype would do.

But her sister and brother-in-law, Louise and David Turpin, kept such a secret life that they wouldn't let her in.

"When that happens for 20 years, and it was before the kids even were there, you don't think it's abnormal," Flores told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday.

"If it had been like two years ago that she cut us off, then we might think, wow, something's not right. But this has been going on before they even had children ... they were real private, and they didn't come around much."

The world now knows some of what was happening inside the Turpins' 4-bedroom house.Their 13 children were held captive - with some shackled and chained with padlocks.

Now the children are free, and the parents are in custody. The Turpins face charges of torture and child endangerment; bail was set at $9 million. It was not immediately clear whether they have hired an attorney.

Sister-in-law: He watched me when I showered

Flores said she was never really comfortable with her brother-in-law.

Back when she was in college, Flores lived with the Turpins for a few months. At that time, the couple had a few children.

"I thought they were really strict, but I didn't see any abuse," Flores told GMA.

But something very disturbing did happen: Turpin used to watch Flores shower, she said.

"If I went to get in the shower, he would come in while I was in there and watch me. It was like a joke," Flores said. "He never touched me or anything."

But she said she never told anyone about the shower stalking.

"I was young. I was scared. I was in Texas, where I knew nobody," Flores said. "I was treated like one of the kids, kind of, so I had rules. Well now that I'm an adult, and I look back, I see things that I didn't see then."

As the family grew, Flores said, Louise Turpin even shut out her own father.

Several years ago, she said, her father booked a flight to go see Louise and her family.

"He got the ticket, he was going to surprise her, and he called her to tell him he was coming. And she told him not to come."

Another sister: The kids looked really skinny

Teresa Robinette, another sister of Louise Turpin, said she sometimes kept in touch with the mother of 13. But she was concerned about the children's weights, Robinette told NBC's "Today" show.

"I always made comments to Louise when I did talk to her, about, 'Gosh, they're so skinny.' And she would laugh it off: 'Well David's so tall and lanky. They're going to be like him,'" Robinette said.

After hearing about the children's alleged torture at home, Robinette broke down in tears.

"We are as hurt and shocked and angry and disappointed as everybody else," she said.

Flores said she, too, was devastated to hear what happened. But she said she still loves her sister.

"I want her to know that she's still my blood, and I love her," Flores said. "I don't agree with what she did, and her actions has made the whole family suffer. But I want her to know I'm praying for her salvation."

Flores said she had a more important message for her nieces and nephews:

"I want them to know they do have family that they love, whether they know us or not."

Aunt: Everybody wondered why they had 'all them kids'

Brenda Taylor, who is Louise Turpin's aunt, said she wasn't around her niece often, but followed the couple's lives on Facebook.

"With the pictures they put on Facebook, you thought they were one big happy family," she said.

David and Louise Turpin were both from Princeton, West Virginia, she added.

"She was young when they married," Taylor said. "She was 16, I think."

Taylor said she hadn't seen them in West Virginia since the mid-1990s when the couple had only two children. She said that they didn't come home for Louise's parents funerals and that she wasn't in direct contact with the family.

"Everybody in the family was always wondering why they had all them kids," Taylor said. "I never dreamed they had all them kids."

But she would comment on their Facebook page, but never got a response back.

Taylor said she was shocked to hear of their arrest.

"We always thought she [Louise Turpin] was the most stable of them," her aunt said. "Now it sounds like she was the worst of them."

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South Africa wants more Muslims because they are rich.

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A typical tourist hot spot for Europeans, South Africa's legislative capital Cape Town wants more Muslim tourists to visit the city, tourism officials told CNN on Thursday.

The city had over 1 million visitors in 2016 and is considered one of the most popular tourist destinations in Africa, but the rapid economic development and population growth of some Muslim-majority countries is seen as an additional opportunity for Cape Town's government, which wants to continue to grow its tourism market.

Travel expenditure by Muslims is expected to be over $200 billion by 2020, according to a 2016 report by Mastercard.

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"The Muslim population is growing rapidly and is expected to make up 26 percent of the world's population by 2030. This translates to one out of three people born between 1990 and 2030 being Muslim," the Mastercard report notes.

Mastercard also reported that the middle class in Muslim-majority countries is growing-creating more disposable income-and that the proliferation of cellphone and internet technology is making it easier for young Muslims from countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to access information to plan their holidays abroad.

With this in mind, many popular tourist destinations are trying to make their facilities more attractive to Muslim tourists. In 2015, halal tourism emerged as a subgenre of tourism.

That means providing halal food in restaurants and ensuring that there is no pork or alcohol-items whose consumption is prohibited under the Muslim faith-in rental kitchens. It also means ensuring that Muslims have somewhere to pray when they travel.

Indonesia and Turkey, two Muslim-majority countries, recently announced that they want to become hubs for Muslim tourism. Both countries have increased the number of prayer facilities for Muslims in hotels and guesthouses.

But in many places, there is also an increase in safety concerns for Muslim tourists, who say they are experiencing increased Islamophobia in locations around the world.

Around 3 percent of South Africa's population is Muslim, and many of them live in Cape Town.

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Unlike the U.S., South Africa wants to open its doors to Muslims

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A typical tourist hot spot for Europeans, South Africa's legislative capital Cape Town wants more Muslim tourists to visit the city, tourism officials told CNN on Thursday.