Crime & Safety

'House of Horror' Sisters Molested By Perris Foster Dad: Report

Thirteen siblings were rescued from a torturous Perris home in 2018. The foster parents for five of them were reportedly charged with abuse.

Thirteen siblings were rescued from a torturous Perris home in 2018. The foster parents for five of them were reportedly charged with abuse.
Thirteen siblings were rescued from a torturous Perris home in 2018. The foster parents for five of them were reportedly charged with abuse. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)

PERRIS, CA — Two sisters, who were among 13 siblings rescued from their torturous parents in Perris, were subsequently molested by their foster father and faced other abuse from other members of the foster family, according to a report.

As Patch previously reported, David Turpin and his wife, Louise, are serving 25 years to life in prison for imprisoning and torturing 12 of their 13 children in what was described at the time as a house of horrors. The children were often chained to their beds, permitted to shower just once a year and were barely fed, leaving them woefully malnourished.

The case gained national headlines after the couple's 17-year-old daughter escaped in January 2018 and told a 911 dispatcher that her two younger sisters were chained to their beds and shackled tightly enough to leave bruises.

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But charging documents obtained by the Daily Mail alleged that the Perris foster parents for five of the siblings subsequently molested two sisters and abused four other children.

Marcelino Olguin, 63, targeted two of the girls — one who was under 14 – for "sexual touching" on their buttocks and upper thighs more than 50 times, the Daily Mail reported.

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He forcibly kissed the girls, pulled a girl on top of him, called them "sexy," told them they had beautiful skin and suggested they not wear undershirts, an investigator said in court documents, according to the report.

Olguin was reportedly charged with seven counts of committing a lewd and lascivious act on a child and six torture counts.

Among the other allegations listed in the report:

  • The foster family forced the five Turpin children to confess past sibling abuses that their biological parents had forced them to perform.
  • A male child was isolated and imprisoned in his bedroom, cursed at and demeaned.
  • All five siblings were threatened with never seeing their family again if they refused to comply.
  • The foster family gave a five-year-old girl, who was not part of the Turpin family, sleeping pills and then forced her to stand while they rang a bell in her ear to prevent her from falling asleep. The girl collapsed onto a hard tile floor.

The news comes after Riverside County announced in November that it had hired a former federal judge to investigate services and treatment provided to the 13 Turpin siblings.

That announcement followed an ABC News report that said some siblings said they were living in poor conditions and were unable to access basic services or money that had been raised for them through private donations.

The report was presented to the county on Tuesday.

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