Torture and abuse followed the Turpin siblings into the Riverside County foster care system after they were rescued from their parents’ “house of horrors” in 2018, according to a pair of lawsuits filed this week.
While in foster care, the 13 siblings were sexually abused over the course of three years, forced to gorge on food and eat their own vomit, court records show. Their foster parents suggested how the children could kill themselves and said no one would love them, according to complaints filed Tuesday in Riverside County Superior Court.
The siblings were discovered living captive in a Perris tract home four years ago after one of the girls escaped from the house and asked a neighbor to call 911. They were then removed from the care of their parents — David and Louise Turpin, who were subsequently sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after being convicted of torturing and imprisoning their offspring — and six of the children were placed in foster care.
