LONG BEACH, Calif.—Six of the 13 children victimized in Riverside County’s most notorious parental child abuse case filed a lawsuit July 20 against the county and a Long Beach-based foster care agency for placing them in another allegedly abusive household, where their attorneys say they were subjected to sexual assaults, psychological torment, and other offenses.
“The 13 Turpin children endured some of the most sickening child abuse the county has ever seen,” said Los Angeles attorney Elan Zektser, who is representing two of the adult children. “After these vulnerable children were freed [from their parents], they were placed by the county through ChildNet into a known abusive foster home. It is beyond shocking that the county and ChildNet let these kids get horrifically abused once again. Our communities should be appalled.”…