The Turpins are critical of how Riverside County Child Protective Services caseworkers investigated reports of abuse, and of ChildNet, the state-licensed business that placed them with the Olguins.
David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, are shown with their children on a Facebook post. The Turpins have been arrested on suspicion of nine counts of torture and 10 counts of child endangerment.
“What happened in that home is worse than what happened in their biological parents’ home,” Zektser said. “So a number of them are extremely relieved that the Olguins will not do this to another child.” “They felt the county and ChildNet were worse than the Olguins themselves,” Zektser said. “They had been told over and over again, ‘You are safe. We got you, trust us,’ and then they were placed here. With a child molester.”
The six minor Turpins were taken in at the foster home in April 2018, three months after the 13 Turpin children, ages 2 to 29 and whose names all begin with the letter J,Six to nine months later, allegations began reaching CPS of crimes being committed by the Olguins, Booth said. He declined to say who made the reports but said some of them came from people outside the home. The 13 Turpins are known to be in frequent contact with each other.
Part of the problem, Booth said, was that the children were questioned in front of the Olguins, who had told the children “They were nothing,” nobody would help them and if they left the Scenic Way home, the tight-knit siblings would be broken up.CPS did eventually notify the Sheriff’s Department, Zektser said. Master Investigator Tom Salisbury interviewed the children away from the home and reported his findings to the District Attorney’s Office.
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