The adoptive parents of several Turpin brothers and sisters convicted of child abuse

A Perris man, his wife and their adult daughter who perpetrated sexual, psychological and other abuse on six children in their care after being rescued from a home where their natural parents had imprisoned them and inflicted trauma that gained international notoriety, were sentenced on Friday.

“Today’s sentencing marks an important step in providing justice to victims who endured unimaginable abuse,” said Riverside County Prosecutor Mike Hestrin. “These children were placed in a vulnerable position after surviving intense trauma, only to be further exploited by someone entrusted with their care.”

“We are committed to holding accountable those who prey on innocent children,” he added. “Our office remains committed to achieving justice for all victims of abuse and ensuring that those who violate the trust placed in them are held accountable.”

Marcelino Camacho Olguin, 65, his wife, Rosa Armida Olguin, 60, and their adult daughter, Lennys Giovanna Olguin, 39, reached a plea deal with the prosecutor’s office last month.

Marcelino Olguin admitted to seven counts of lewd acts on a minor and one count of false imprisonment, prompting prosecutors to drop four related charges. At a hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice Friday, Superior Court Judge Gail O’Rane sentenced the defendant to seven years in state prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender for life under the terms of his parole.

His wife admitted three counts of child abuse and one count each of witness intimidation, robbery and false imprisonment. Four charges were dropped in his case. The judge imposed a sentence of four years of felony probation and 120 days of probation in a sheriff’s work release program.

The couple’s daughter admitted three counts of child abuse and one count each of false imprisonment and witness intimidation. Three charges against her were dismissed. O’Rane sentenced the defendant to our years of probation, with a requirement of 150 days of work release. Rosa and Lennys Olguin received prison sentences of four years each, but those were suspended by the judge as part of the women’s plea deals.

The Turpin children are suing the county Department of Public Social Services and foster care agency ChildNet, also known as Foster Family Network, for placing them in Olguin’s foster family. Attorneys for the plaintiffs are expected to hold a news conference Monday outside the historic Riverside Courthouse to provide an update on the civil suit and share the siblings’ reactions to the settlement of the Olguin case.

The defendants were charged in November 2021 following a sheriff’s investigation initiated based on the Turpin children’s complaints of repeated abuse at the defendants’ residence. The victims, almost all of whom are young adults now emancipated, had been in a hostile environment for more than two years, placed with the Olguins after their rescue from a “house of horrors” often described and maintained by their parents, David Turpin. , 61, and Louise Turpin, 54, each was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in 2019 after admitting to multiple counts of child cruelty. Attorneys Elan Zektser and Roger Booth represent various Turpin siblings.

According to Zektser’s complaint, several of the Turpin girls were the objects of lascivious attention from Marcelino Olguin, who “grabbed and caressed (their) buttocks, legs, breasts” and “kissed them on the mouth and made sexually suggestive comments.” “There were instances where the Olguins “pulled their hair, hit them with a belt and hit their heads,” the complaint states.

The document noted other abuses: “forcing the complainants to sit alone, sometimes outside, for several hours at a time”; “forcing plaintiffs to sit in a circle and recount in detail the horrors they experienced while living with their parents”; “verbally insulting the complainants, insulting them and telling them that they are worthless and that they should commit suicide”; “forcing them to eat until they started vomiting,” then forcing them “to eat their own vomit.”

The Olguins further told the children that “no one would ever love them,” Zektser wrote. In the spring of 2021, the plaintiffs were either placed in alternative foster homes or emancipated. The whistleblower about the Olguins’ criminal acts is the same one who escaped from his parents’ home by jumping out a window in January 2018 – Jordan Turpin, now 22 years old. Her 911 call stating that she and her 12 siblings were
Virtually locked in their Muir Woods Road home, the siblings got some temporary relief — before half of them went to live with the Olguins.

David and Louise Turpin kept some of their children tied up most of the time, forced them to eat peanut butter sandwiches and burritos, made them sleep for up to 20 hours a day, and only allowed them to eat. shower only once a year. There was also physical violence which resulted in injuries.