Pete Buttigieg said an anonymous report led police to keep him away from his four-year-old twins for about 24 hours. He said the episode began soon after he shared Father’s Day photos of his family online, turning a private post into a police and child-protective-services response.
Michigan State Police Response
Michigan State Police said they received the report and sent a Michigan State Police officer and a child protective services worker to Buttigieg’s home. Authorities arranged forensic interviews for the twins and told him not to be alone with them until those interviews were complete.
That meant a night away from his children while the report was checked. Buttigieg said Child Protective Services found nothing to substantiate it, and police later told him the allegation would not be referred to prosecutors.
Buttigieg’s Alabama Claim
In a Substack post, Buttigieg said investigators later told him the caller claimed he had confessed years earlier to violent crimes during a chance meeting in Alabama. He said he had never been to the town where that meeting allegedly occurred.
He wrote that the experience was “among the darkest hours of my life” and added, “I cannot describe the mix of rage and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this.” He also wrote, “They are four years old. Four. They do not know or care what a Democrat or a Republican is.”
Pete Buttigieg and Chasten
Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, adopted their twins while he was serving in the Biden administration. He said he has faced death threats during his career and wrote, “But this is the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began,” followed by, “Everyone knows politics is ugly these days,” and “It’s always been ugly, but now it feels more and more like bloodsport.”
The report left a record of how a false anonymous call can trigger a home visit, forensic interviews, and a temporary order keeping a parent apart from children until authorities finish their review. Who made the report and why they targeted Buttigieg is not identified.
