Jordan Turpin, who escaped from her Perris home and alerted authorities in early 2018, has nearly 700,000 followers on TikTok. Her older sister Jennifer has more than 41,000 followers.
Both were featured on an ABC News 20/20 special in November 2021.
While Jordan Turpin usually posts TikTok videos of herself singing or dancing, Jennifer has used the platform to go into detail about the years of abuse, but also what it was like more recently under conservatorships, lawyers and the Riverside County Public Guardian.
“When we were first rescued, we were all placed [under] a conservatorship,” said Jennifer Turpin, regarding she and her six adult siblings. The video was posted on TikTok by one of her close friends on Sunday, May 22.
“We had a place to live. It was because of them we got into our first apartment,” said Turpin about the conservatorship under the Riverside County Public Guardian. She said they also assisted them in finding therapy.
“[But] there was a lot of stuff they didn’t teach us. We ended up having to figure it all out. But all in all, it made me smarter in trying to figure out things.”
Jennifer Turpin went on to say that Vanessa Espinoza, the deputy public guardian who was assigned to work with the seven adult Turpin siblings, is being unfairly accused of neglecting her responsibilities.
“Vanessa’s name shouldn’t have been dragged through the mud like it was. In the beginning, she would treat us to Starbucks, and treat us to so many things,” said Turpin in the TikTok video.
“She would go out of her way to make sure we got the trust funds we needed, or fight with our conservator lawyers,” Turpin said. “She tried to be nice to us, and she would get in trouble for it.”
Jennifer Turpin said her biggest complaints are with the attorneys who represented her. Jack Osborn was the attorney appointed to protect the interests of the seven adult Turpin siblings under the conservatorship.
“[The lawyers] lied to us. They lied to Vanessa,” said Jennifer Turpin in the TikTok video. “They were trying to talk us into making a book or movie, and you know they would make a profit if we did.”
Eyewitness News has reached out to attorney Jack Osborn for comment and is still awaiting a response.
But Jennifer Turpin hasn’t only talked about the years since she escaped from that Perris house of horrors. In previous videos posted to her own TikTok account, she has reflected on some of the trips she and her siblings would take with her parents.
“It was all for show,” Turpin said. “It was all showing that we’re this perfect happy family that we were not.”
Turpin said her mother would often get compliments about her siblings’ manners.
“They would say, ‘Oh my gosh, you have so many kids and they’re so well behaved.’ And she’s like ‘I’m so proud of them,'” said Jennifer about her mother Louise Turpin.
“In reality, she didn’t spend time with us. She just sat on the couch and watched TV all day and did nothing but order some of us around.”
David and Louise Turpin are both serving life sentences in state prison. The six minor Turpin children were placed in foster care.
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