Pete Buttigieg recalls ‘darkest hours’ after separation from children over hoax CPS report

Police say anonymous tip was unsubstantiated after what Buttigieg calls deeply distressing' day apart from children

Pete Buttigieg, the former US transportation secretary, said on Friday an anonymous and - police say - meritless accusation 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.