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ABC7 published Sep 20, 2024: Perris foster family pleads guilty to abusing several Turpin children. Three foster parents in Perris pleaded guilty to abusing children, including several Turpin siblings who were previously were tortured by their parents.
KCAL News December 17, 2021: Perris Foster Family Accused Of Abusing Turpin Children. A foster family in Perris is facing allegations that it abused several foster children, including members of the Turpin family.
ABC7 News
written by Rob McMillan
Friday September 20, 2024
RIVERSIDE, California - Three foster parents in Perris have pleaded guilty to several child abuse charges involving nine children, including several of the Turpin siblings.
Marcelino Olguin pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, one count of child endangerment and one count of false imprisonment.
According to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office, he will likely be sentenced to seven years in state prison and have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Olguin's wife Rosa and daughter Lennys both pleaded guilty to child endangerment and false imprisonment charges and are expected to be sentenced to four years of probation.
The story of the 13 Turpin siblings gained international attention in January 2018, when their parents David and Louise Turpin were arrested, suspected of torturing the children, depriving them of food and chaining them to their beds.
The Turpin parents later pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts and were sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison. While many of the adult Turpin siblings were free to then live on their own, the minor children were placed in the foster care system.
In April 2018, five of the Turpin children were placed under the foster care of the Olguin family.
The Riverside County sheriff's department began investigating the Olguins in early 2021. According to an arrest warrant, there were a total of nine victims; five of whom are believed to be Turpin siblings.
According to the warrant, the Olguins were aware of the "egregious, life-long severe abuses the biological parents inflicted on" them and forced the siblings to participate in a "circle confession talk."
Investigators said the Turpin children were confined to their rooms, with several of the doors equipped with door chimes to alert the Olguins when the children entered or exited.
Marcelino Olguin was accused of sexually touching the children in excess of 50 times, and told them they were "sexy, recommended they not wear undershirts... and forced kissed them and pulled a minor on top of him."
The Olguins are scheduled to be back in court for sentencing on Oct. 18.
***THIS IS WHAT THE CHILDREN WERE RESCUED FROM***
ABC7 published January 18, 2018: Perris couple pleads not guilty in child-torture case. A Perris couple accused of torturing their 13 malnourished adult and juvenile children face up to 94 years to life in prison if convicted.
Good Morning America published July 20, 2022: 6 Turpin children sue Riverside County foster care system. In a new lawsuit, attorneys for the six youngest children of the Turpin family say that the foster family who was paid to raise them after they were rescued was also abusive.
CBS News
written by Staff
Thursday July 21, 2024
Six of the 13 Turpin siblings – who had already suffered tremendously at the hands of their own parents – are suing Riverside County and a Long Beach-based foster care agency for placing them in a household where their attorney alleges they were sexually abused and tormented psychologically.
Two lawsuits filed against both Riverside County Child Protective Services and ChildNet allege the foster parents that the six minor Turpin children were placed with had already been the subject of "credible reports of abuse and neglect."
"The 13 Turpin children endured some of the most sickening child abuse the county has ever seen," Los Angeles attorney Elan Zekster said. "After these vulnerable children were freed, they were placed by the county through ChildNet into a known abusive foster home. It is beyond shocking that the county and ChildNet let these kids get horrifically abused once again. Our communities should be appalled.
The siblings' parents, David and Louise Turpin, were each sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison in 2019 after admitting multiple child cruelty counts. Prosecutors called their home a "house of horrors," after they were found to be keeping some of their children caged or chained most of the day, feeding them a meager diet of peanut butter sandwiches and burritos, making them sleep up to 20 hours daily, and allowing them to shower just once a year. The children also had injuries indicating physical abuse.
The 13 children became wards of the state. In 2018, the underage children came under the supervision of county Child Protective Services, which contracted with ChildNet, also known as Foster Family Network, which placed six of the victims in the Perris home of 63-year-old Marcelino Camacho Olguin, his 58-year-old wife Rosa Armida Olguin, and their adult daughter, 37-year-old Lennys Giovanna Olguin. All three Olguins were charged last November with nearly a dozen offenses, including child cruelty, false imprisonment, and witness intimidation for alleged mistreatment of the Turpin children.
According to the complaint filed by Zekster, who represents two of the adult Turpin children, and litigator Roger Booth, who is representing four of the younger children, several of the Turpin girls were objects of lascivious attention from Marcelino Olguin, who was described as "grabbing and fondling buttocks, legs, breasts" and "kissing them on their mouths and making sexually suggestive comments." The complaint also alleged the Olguins "pulling their hair, hitting them with a belt and striking their heads."
The abuse against the children also included "making plaintiffs sit in a circle and recount, in detail, the horrors that they had experienced while living with their parents"; "verbally abusing plaintiffs, cursing at them, and telling them that they were worthless and should commit suicide"; "forcing them to eat until they began to vomit," and compelling them "to eat their own vomit."
The children allege in their lawsuit that the abuse continued until the spring of 2021, when a sheriff's investigation resulted in the Olguins' arrest. All three have been released after posting six-figure bonds, as they await trial.
The six siblings have since been emancipated, or placed in alternate foster care homes, where no problems have been reported.
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