Youngest Turpin Siblings Share Their Story for the First Time, After Years of Abuse and Foster Care Trauma

Three of the youngest Turpin siblings are speaking publicly for the first time.

They appear in a new one-hour interview with Diane Sawyer, “The Turpins: A New House of Horror — A Diane Sawyer Special Event,” airing Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 10 p.m. ET on ABC, and streaming the next day on Disney+ and Hulu.

The interview arrives nearly a decade after the 13 Turpin siblings were rescued from their family’s home in Perris, California, in early 2018. The case came to light after Jordan Turpin — then 17 — escaped and alerted authorities that her siblings were being held captive and abused.

Before the rescue, the children — ages 2 to 29 — spent most of their lives inside the house, where they were routinely beaten and deprived of food. Authorities said some were chained to beds and, at times, confined in cages for breaking strict household rules.

Their parents, David and Louise Turpin, were later convicted of multiple felony charges, including cruelty to an adult dependent, child cruelty, torture, and false imprisonment. They were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

“We literally were dying in there from starvation, and she knew about it,” one of the Turpin daughters said.

But the siblings say the suffering didn’t end after they escaped.

After leaving their parents’ home, the six youngest children were placed with foster parents Marcelino and Rosa Olguin, along with their adult daughter Lennys Olguin. In the special, the siblings describe that period as another chapter of trauma.

“These kids were just hit with a double whammy,” attorney Elan Zektser previously said. According to Zektser, the children were repeatedly demeaned in foster care and told, “Your parents were right. You are worthless. You’re a nobody. You’re a Turpin,” leaving them with even less confidence than before.

“They would do everything in their power, it seemed like to try to break me,” one Turpin son said.

The Olguins were arrested in 2021 and initially pleaded not guilty. In 2024, Marcelino Olguin pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including four counts of lewd acts on a child aged 14 or 15 when the defendant is at least 10 years older; three counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14; one count of false imprisonment; and one count of injuring a child.

Rosa Olguin and Lennys Olguin each pleaded guilty to three counts of willful child cruelty, along with one count each of false imprisonment and intimidating a witness. Rosa Olguin also pleaded guilty to grand theft.