NOTE: This article contains details of abuse that are disturbing. Please read at your own discretion. Six of the 13 Turpin siblings who were rescued from extreme abuse in their parents’ Perris, Calif., home in 2018 have now filed a lawsuit against the foster care agency that placed them in a home where they were allegedly subjected to further neglect.
For most of their lives, the Turpin siblings were imprisoned, tortured and starved in their family’s home until one of the girls escaped and called 911.
After they were removed from the house, the six younger children were placed with a foster family. That’s where the six siblings say they experienced even more “severe abuse and neglect,” ranging from sexual abuse to forcing the siblings to gorge on food, then eat their own vomit, according to a pair of lawsuits filed Tuesday by legal partners Elan Zektser and Roger Booth.
The six siblings filed two nearly identical lawsuits, with one representing the two older siblings, who are now adults and have since aged out of foster care, and the other representing the younger four, three of whom are still minors.