Overview
- ABC aired a one-hour special on Feb. 3 featuring first-time interviews with Julissa, 19, Jolinda, 20, and James Turpin, 24.
- They recount the years of deprivation and violence in their Perris, California home, first exposed when Jordan Turpin’s 2018 911 call led to the rescue of 13 siblings.
- David and Louise Turpin pleaded guilty in 2019 to torture and related felonies and received sentences of 25 years to life.
- Six of the youngest children were later placed with Marcelino and Rosa Olguin; in 2024, Marcelino received a seven-year sentence after guilty pleas that included lewd acts, while Rosa and their daughter, Lennys, received probation.
- The siblings’ civil suits against Riverside County and ChildNet ended in a financial settlement without admissions of wrongdoing, after a 2022 independent review found the child-welfare system had failed them and the county said it enacted reforms.