Pete Buttigieg says family investigated over baseless child abuse allegation

Buttigieg calls anonymous tip ‘politically motivated’ and says separation from his kids was among his ‘darkest hours’

Pete Buttigieg, the former US transportation secretary, said on Friday an anonymous and – police say – meritless accusation of child abuse led Child Protective Services to investigate his family.

In a Substack post published on Friday, Buttigieg described the incident – which resulted in him being separated from his four-year-old twins – as “among the darkest hours of my life” and likened the accusation to “swatting”, the practice of calling police with a false report of an emergency to trigger a law enforcement response.
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