They were taken from their parents for their own safety. Then county social workers abused them, they say.

They were the children of domestic violence, parents haunted by drug addiction and other traumas, taken from their homes by social workers convinced that they would be safer in the custody of San Diego County than with their own parents…. Some of them were drugged to keep them vulnerable, and easy to molest, the plaintiffs say. In addition to repeated sexual assaults, others say they suffered physical and verbal abuse by social workers at the Polinsky Children’s Center.