From Safe Haven to Systemic Betrayal: How San Diego’s Polinsky Children’s Center Failed the Smiel Family
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November 1, 2025
Hundreds of lawsuits, state violations, and survivor accounts paint a devastating portrait of San Diego County’s flagship children’s shelter — the same facility where Giselle Smiel’s kids were taken before being handed to their abusive father. Polinsky’s…