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{"id":24892,"date":"2026-06-26T21:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pete-buttigeig-says-he-was-targeted-by-false-abuse-allegation-in-michigan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:17:16","slug":"pete-buttigeig-says-he-was-targeted-by-false-abuse-allegation-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pete-buttigeig-says-he-was-targeted-by-false-abuse-allegation-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Buttigeig says he was targeted by false abuse allegation in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he was kept apart from his two young children for 24 hours after someone made a false complaint about him to child protective services in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/petebuttigieg.substack.com\/p\/a-terrible-thing-happened-to-my-family\" target=\"_blank\">a Friday post to substack<\/a>, Buttigieg said an anonymous caller who claimed to have met him several years ago at a conference in Alabama had reported him to CPS for committing \u201cunspeakable violent crimes\u201d and the caller believed his four-year-old twins were still at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg said the twins were placed with their grandparents&#8217; and underwent a forensic interview as authorities investigated the allegations. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor twenty-four deeply distressing hours, we had no idea what I was accused of or what was about to happen,\u201d Buttigieg wrote. \u201cWe could not understand someone abusing the system like this in order to hurt me and my family with an absurd and easily refuted allegation of a horrific crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State Police confirmed in response to questions about the Substack post that they had responded to an anonymous report this week, which they determined to be false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFalse reports are dangerous and divert law enforcement officers and Child Protective Services workers from responding to legitimate emergencies and protecting vulnerable children and families,\u201d Shanon Banner, spokesperson for the state police, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the conclusion that the report was false, Buttigieg said he was told it would \u201ctake a bit longer\u201d before the case is officially closed. A spokesperson for the former Cabinet secretary referred questions to the state police.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg pointed out that it is a crime to file a false report, adding that \u201cif there is any way to press civil or criminal charges over this, we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg, who formerly served as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and ran for president in 2020, called the false report \u201cthe ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot describe the mix of rage and sadness that I feel at the idea that someone brought our children into this. They are four years old. Four. They do not know or care what a Democrat or a Republican is,\u201d he said. \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, they are just kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says he was kept apart from his two young children for 24 hours after someone made a false complaint about him to child protective services in Michigan. In a Friday post to substack, Buttigieg said an anonymous caller who claimed to have met him several years ago at a conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}