SAN DIEGO — Advancing claims that San Diego County allowed a social worker to detain two young children without parental consent, a federal judge noted that “lying and threatening to take a 3-year-old from a mother so as to supplant a parent’s medical decision-making is conscience-shocking behavior.”
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