California county officials frustrated with pace of efforts to investigate Turpin case as probe continues
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California officials say they're frustrated in their efforts to find out why social services systems have "harmed" some of 13 Turpin children following their 2018 rescue.
Top officials in California's Riverside County said this week that they continue to be frustrated in their efforts to find out why social services systems have "harmed" some of the 13 Turpin children who were rescued in 2018 from captivity and torture at the hands of their parents.
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors had vowed to fix the system that broke down for some of the 13 Turpin siblings, but said this week that the process has been bogged down by a tangle of court-mandated confidentiality rules and other state laws that prevent information-sharing.
"We're trying to do what we can do because we all take this very serious," county Supervisor Karen Spiegel said Tuesday of the ongoing investigation into revelations first reported in 2021 by ABC News that many of the Turpin children were not given access to many of services and resources they were guaranteed by the system. "There are things that our hands are totally tied on."
The 13 siblings were rescued in January 2018 from their home in Perris, California, where their parents had subjected them to brutal violence and deprived them of food, sleep, hygiene, education, and health care.
