A foster family in California admitted to abusing several children in their care, including some of the Turpin kids who were rescued from their parents’ abusive home.
Marcelino Olguin, from Perris, pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including inappropriate acts with minors, false imprisonment, and harming a child. His wife, Rosa, and their daughter, Lennys, also pleaded guilty to child cruelty, false imprisonment, and trying to intimidate a witness.
Rosa also pleaded guilty to grand theft, according to Thalia Hayden, a spokesperson for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.
Marcelino Olguin will have to register as a sex offender and will serve seven years in prison after sentencing, according to his lawyer, Paul Grech. Grech explained that Marcelino took the plea deal to bring closure to his family.
Rosa and Lennys Olguin will both face four years of probation and a suspended four-year sentence. Lennys will also serve 150 days in a work-release program, while Rosa is expected to serve 120 days. All three will be sentenced on October 18.
The family was charged in November 2021 after local sheriffs obtained a sworn statement alleging that they sexually and psychologically abused the foster children in their care, the Press-Enterprise reported.
The children were allegedly forced to eat their own vomit and were told they should kill themselves, the outlet said.
Six of the children abused in the Olguins’ home were part of the large Turpin family who were placed in the residence in April 2018 – just three months after they were rescued from captivity in their parents’ so-called “house of horrors.”
The 13 Turpin kids, ages 2 to 29, endured a lifetime of heinous abuse at the hands of their parents, David and Louise Turpin.
Six of the underage siblings were then sent to a foster home only to be tortured again by the Olguins, according to two lawsuits filed by those kids n 2022.
“Immediately after being placed at the Olguins’, the three defendants pressure-questioned the siblings about their traumatic past,” one investigator wrote, according to the Press-Enterprise report.
“They forced the siblings to participate in a ‘circle confession talk,’” authorities said.
“The siblings were forced to admit to their past sibling abuses, which their biological parents forced them to commit. The Olguins told the siblings non-participation would result in not seeing or visiting with their older siblings in the future.”
One 5-year-old child in the Olguins’ care was given sleeping pills and then forced to stand in a small, square area marked by blue tape, according to reports.
The Olguins would spray the child with water, ring a bell and yell to keep them awake.
The child was also locked in their bedroom for nine hours a day.
It wasn’t clear if this child was one of the Turpin kids.
Earlier this year, a lawyer for the Turpin children told the US Sun that the abuse they faced in foster care was “even worse than what they experienced from their parents.”
