Child welfare boss who sent five rescued Turpin children to live with an alleged pedophile as foster parents are charged with molesting two of the sisters and torturing the others
Charity Douglas, 50, is the child welfare boss whose social workers sent five Turpin children to live with an alleged pedophile
DailyMail.com spotted Douglas smartly dressed in a navy print blouse as she left her home in Riverside County, California
Douglas has run the Riverside County Children's Services Division since September 2018 and she now faces questions
Marcelino Olguin, 63, of Perris, California, has been charged with seven counts of committing a 'lewd and lascivious act on a child' and six of torture
His wife Rosa, 58, and daughter Lennys, 37, have been hit with torture and false imprisonment charges for their part in the abuse
Smartly dressed in a navy print blouse and a chunky resin necklace: this is the child welfare boss whose social workers sent five of the traumatized Turpin children to live with an alleged pedophile.
Charity Douglas, 50, has run the Riverside County Children's Services Division since September 2018 when her predecessor was forced out over an abuse case that saw a 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped and left pregnant by her mother's boyfriend.
Douglas, who has worked for Riverside County since 2013 and earns a handsome $214,765 salary, is now facing questions after DailyMail.com revealed that the Turpin children were left in the care of Marcelino Olguin, 63, who has been charged with the sexual abuse of two of them and of physically and mentally torturing all five.
Olguin's wife Rosa, 58, and daughter Lennys, 37, have been hit with torture and false imprisonment charges for their alleged part in the abuse.
All three are set to appear in court in Riverside, California, on Monday where they will be arraigned for their alleged crimes – which also include the abuse of a further four foster children. One, a five-year-old girl was regularly left in soiled clothing and forced to stand for hours on end, charging documents say.
The nine children remained with the Olguins until their arrest in March 2021.
Asked to comment on the case, a spokesman for the Riverside Department of Public and Social Services said: 'Neither DPSS or Charity Douglas are commenting as an independent investigation by the Larson firm is ongoing.'
That investigation into the county's handling of the Turpin case is headed by retired judge Stephen Larson. It was due to report on by the end of March but that date has now been pushed back to May 31.
A colleague of Larson's has complained that his work has been hampered by lack of access to records.
DailyMail.com revealed exclusively on Thursday that Olguin allegedly touched two of the Turpin girls, one of whom was under 14 at the time, on their buttocks and upper thighs more than 50 times .
He 'told them they were sexy, recommended they not wear undershirts, said they had beautiful skin, forcibly kissed them and pulled a minor on top of him,' investigator Thomas Salisbury wrote.
Now we can disclose that Douglas's beleaguered Children's Services Division is currently being sued over another case that saw a baby boy savagely beaten and left with serious head injuries after social workers sent him back to his abusive mother.
Named in court papers as 'Demetrius L', the complaint says social workers had investigated his mother Lonnie Carranza 12 times over the abuse of her three older children in the five years before his birth but allowed the baby to live with her.
Less than two months after he was born in April 2019, Demetrius was rushed to the hospital with seizures and vomiting.
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