Foster parents who cared for Turpin siblings after 'house of horrors' hell learn fate over abuse charges

A California antheral was sentenced connected Friday to 7 years successful situation for abusing some  foster children helium had assigned to attraction for successful his home, including immoderate of the Turpin siblings who had already been tortured by their ain parents.

Marcelino Olguin, 65, was handcuffed and led distant by sheriff's deputies successful a courtroom successful Riverside aft a little sentencing hearing. 

Olguin pleased blameworthy successful September to lewd acts connected a child, mendacious imprisonment and injuring a child, portion his wife, Rosa Olguin, and their big daughter, Lennys, besides had earlier pleaded blameworthy to kid cruelty. 

The women were each sentenced to 4 years of ceremonial probation.

Olguin volition person to registry arsenic a enactment offender for the remainder of his life. The besides justice ordered that the Olguin to not marque interaction with immoderate of the 9 victims, including six of the youngest Turpin siblings.

The six had. been placed with the Olguin household astatine assorted times opening successful 2018. Four were inactive with the household astatine the clip of their arrest.

Both Marcelino and Rosa cried during their sentencing.  

'Today's sentencing marks a important measurement successful delivering justness to the victims who endured unimaginable abuse,' Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said successful a statement. 

'These children were placed successful a presumption of vulnerability aft surviving aggravated trauma, lone to beryllium further exploited by idiosyncratic who was entrusted with their care,' the connection read.

'We are committed to holding accountable those who prey connected guiltless children. Our bureau remains steadfast successful pursuing justness for each victims of maltreatment and ensuring that those who interruption the spot placed successful them are held accountable.' 

Attorneys for the Olguins said the plea statement allowed for the women to beryllium spared situation time.

'My lawsuit saved his family,' Paul Grech, Marcelino Olguin's lawyer, said aft the hearing. He declined to sermon the lawsuit further.

The Olguin household was tasked with caring for the children aft they were rescued from horribly abusive conditions successful their parents' location successful the Southern California assemblage of Perris. 

Their parents, David and Louise Turpin, pleaded blameworthy successful 2019 to torture and years of maltreatment that included shackling immoderate of their 13 biologic children, starving them and providing lone a minimal education. 

The Turpin parents were sentenced to beingness successful situation with the anticipation of parole aft 25 years.

On Friday, a victim's advocator work to the tribunal a connection prepared by 1 of the Turpin children who had stayed successful the Olguins' home.

'All I wanted was to yet person a loving household and to retrieve from my trauma, but unluckily I did not person that,' the connection said. 

The victim, who was not named, is inactive recovering and learning to trust, but forgives the household successful an enactment of faith, the connection said.

A 2022 report found that the societal work strategy 'failed' the Turpin children, who ranged successful property from 2 to 29 erstwhile they were rescued by authorities from their parents' home aft their 17-year-old sister escaped and called 911. 

'Some of the younger Turpin children were placed with caregivers who were aboriginal charged with kid abuse,' the 630-page study found. 'Some of the older siblings experienced periods of lodging instability and nutrient insecurity arsenic they transitioned to independence.'

Eventually six of the children were placed with the Olguins.

Attorneys representing immoderate of the Turpin children filed a civilian suit against Riverside County alleging the Olguins abused minors successful their care. 

The mates deed the children successful the look with sandals, pulled their hair, forced them to devour their ain vomit and made them beryllium successful a ellipse and recount the trauma they had experienced successful their parents' home, the attorneys wrote successful the suit filed successful 2022. 

The suit, filed a suit against Riverside County and a backstage foster attraction bureau called ChildNet, besides accused Marcelino Olguin of intersexual abuse.

The suits alleges that the foster bureau knew the household was unfit to beryllium foster parents due to the fact that of 'a anterior past of abusing and neglecting children who had been placed successful their care' and failed to enactment erstwhile they were alerted to the allegations of abuse.

Kia Feyzjou, who represented Lennys Olguin, said immoderate of the allegations whitethorn person been a 'little exaggerated' but winning a lawsuit with truthful overmuch nationalist scrutiny would person been difficult. 

Doug Ecks, representing Rosa Olguin, said his lawsuit and her girl mightiness beryllium seen arsenic enablers but didn't look charges of maltreatment to the aforesaid extent.

'When determination was a solution that progressive nary custody, that seemed successful the champion involvement of everybody,' Ecks said.