Olguins Sentenced
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – The Perris couple and their adult daughter who admitted they perpetrated sexual, psychological and other abuse on six children placed in their care after being rescued from a home where their natural parents imprisoned them and inflicted trauma that gained international notoriety were sentenced Friday.
“Today’s sentencing marks a significant step in delivering justice to the victims who endured unimaginable abuse,” Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said. “These children were placed in a position of vulnerability after surviving intense trauma, only to be further exploited by someone who was entrusted with their care.”
Marcelino Camacho Olguin, 65, his wife, Rosa Armida Olguin, 60, and their adult daughter, Lennys Giovanna Olguin, 39, reached plea agreements with the District Attorney’s Office last month.
After pleading guilty to seven counts of lewd acts on a minor and one count of false imprisonment, Marcelino Olguin was sentenced to seven years in state prison, and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
For admitting to three counts of child abuse and one count each of witness intimidation, grand theft, and false imprisonment his wife received four years’ felony probation and 120 days in a sheriff’s work release program.
Pleading guilty to the same counts as her mother, the daughter received a similar sentence, with 30 more days of in a sheriff’s work release program.
The Turpin children are suing the county Department of Public Social Services and placement agency ChildNet, also known as Foster Family Network, for putting them in the Olguin’s foster home. The plaintiffs’ attorneys are slated to hold a news briefing outside the Riverside Historic Courthouse Monday to provide an update on the civil suit and share the siblings’ reactions to disposition of the Olguin case.
The defendants were charged in November 2021 following a sheriff’s investigation that was initiated based on the Turpin children’s complaints of repeated abuse in the defendants’ residence.
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