Six of the 13 Turpin siblings who were placed in foster care after being rescued from their sadistic parents are seeking a settlement from their provider, claiming they were sexually and mentally abused by their adoptive parents.
“Some kids will tell you that what they went through in foster homes was worse than what they went through at the hands of their parents,” Elan Zektser, the attorney representing the Turpin children, told The Sun on Tuesday.
Turpin’s six youngest children filed a lawsuit against Riverside County in California and a private foster care agency, ChildNet Youth and Family Services, in July 2022.
The children claim they were physically, sexually and emotionally abused while in the care of their foster parents, Marcelino and Rosa Olguin, who were both charged after the allegations were made in a civil lawsuit.
The siblings’ story began to captivate and disturb the nation in 2018 when 17-year-old Jordan Turpin escaped from his family’s “house of horrors.”
Marcelino Olguin was arrested in January 2021 and has been charged with 13 counts, including child pornography and intentional child cruelty, for allegedly victimizing two of the siblings.
His wife, Rosa Olguin, 58, and the couple’s daughter Lennys, 37, were also arrested and charged with fraud and witness intimidation.
The alleged creeping foster father is accused of sexually abusing the children by “grabbing and fondling their bottoms, legs, and breasts, kissing their mouths and making sexually suggestive comments,” according to a complaint obtained by The Post in 2022.
Marcelino and Rosa Olguin became foster parents to six of the Turpin children after they escaped horrific abuse at the hands of their parents. CBSLA
“The thing that kills me the most is that when they’re in the Turpin house, they’re told that they don’t deserve to be like everyone else, that they’re bad kids, bad people – that’s what their parents did to them,” Zektser explained.
The lawsuit also alleges that their adoptive father would tell the children to kill themselves because they were only targeted by their parents because they were “unloved.”
Elan Zektser is representing two Turpin siblings in a lawsuit against Riverside County and ChildNet. Facebook / Elan4Justice
“Then the adoptive family uses that against them and adds to that feeling, telling them, ‘Nobody wants you, look what your parents did, they’re right: you’re nothing,'” Zektser told the outlet.
Included in the heart-wrenching allegations against the foster family were that the children would be force-fed until they vomited just to make them eat vomit.
“When you have enough people in your life telling you that you’re nobody and nothing and don’t deserve what other people have in life, it has a deep effect on your psyche,” Zektser said.
Olguin family members have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Their criminal case against them is still pending.
David and Louise Turpin were sentenced to life in prison in 2019. AP
The siblings’ story began to captivate and disturb the nation after 17-year-old Jordan Turpin escaped his family’s “house of horrors” in the middle of the night on January 14, 2018, when he bravely called 911 to report his parents and save his siblings.
Police found the Turpin children – who range in age from 2 to 29 – chained, malnourished and abused at the hands of their parents, David and Louise Turpin.
The cold-blooded couple were arrested, and later both pleaded guilty to 14 counts of abuse. Both parents were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019.
In the middle of the night on January 14, 2018, Jordan Turpin, then 17, ran away from his family’s home and bravely called 911 to report his parents and save his siblings. AP Sisters Jennifer (left) and Jordan Turpin. Instagram / Jennifer Turpin
The Turpin siblings spent weeks in the hospital before Riverside County and ChildNet placed them in an Olguin nursing home.
Brett Lewis, a spokesman for ChildNet Youth and Family Services, said the company maintains its record of serving foster youth following the 2022 lawsuit.
“At this time, our organization is not at liberty to disclose the facts or discuss the allegations made in the complaint,” Lewis said. “We hope to provide the facts at the appropriate time in court. Our agency has served California’s most vulnerable and traumatized youth for over 50 years. We have a strong track record of providing excellent care and continue to demonstrate our commitment to these children.”
The six youngest Turpin siblings are now seeking a massive settlement over their alleged abuse in the foster care system.
With the six youngest Turpin siblings now seeking a massive settlement over their alleged abuse in the foster care system, Zektser said the child who had to deal with this abuse twice has shocked him.
“I’ve been the chief of the sexual assault unit and the child molestation unit in Riverside County, so I’ve seen the worst of the worst,” the attorney said.
“And honestly I’ve seen worse than what happened at the Turpin house, but I never in my wildest dreams saw what happened to them once, and then a county and law enforcement got involved and then put them back. same place for the second time.”
The siblings’ attorneys would not provide the specific numbers he is seeking in the lawsuit against Riverside County and ChildNet, but said the number must be “staggering” because of the abuse his clients faced.
“The best way to implement change is through the pocketbook. I truly believe that I have seen it first hand,” he told the outlet.
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