Forensic interviews of the children (4 years old) is bad enough, but at least they are well trained individuals-- despite being complete strangers to the kids.

I will say that I was so relieved that the interviews and lack of evidence otherwise ended the investigation with nothing but exculpatory findings so that these children were not put through more.

I hold my breath when I relate that I have seen small children brought by police and DFS into the ER to be examined by a physician or other trained staff-- based on these accusations--when initial interview findings determine it to be warranted. Even a busy ER overrun with other emergencies does react to these episodes--almost with a collective gasp. Thankfully, this did not happen to Buttigieg's children.

In it he said someone called 911 to report his children were in danger. I can’t believe that 911 wouldn’t be able to trace that call. Something stinks.

it would be far more realistic to call CPS on Stephen Miller and tell them he forced his children to learn fascist things and sleep hanging upside down in the basement!

Whoever called 911 on Buttegieg, their number should be traceable, but since it was in Alabummer, they won't do any such thing.

And I'm both pleasantly surprised - and alarmed - at what I've seen of the public reaction.

As an early lesbian parent (my daughter turns 36 next month), one of the things always in the back of my mind was that even a biological relationship with my daughter would not protect my legal relationship with her from the bigotry of others. We were always just a complaint or two by someone who believed two women should not choose to have a child together. And, until long after she became an adult, she and my spouse were denied a legal relationship with each other at all.

I have not heard any (or at a minimum very little) about the possibility that this attack was because he is a gay man - something which would have been an immediate (correct) conclusion back when my daughter was the age of his twins. (Plenty of talk about it being politically motivated, but none that I have heard ties it to being motivated by his being gay.)

So that's the pleasant surprise - that it wasn't an immediate assumption that he was targeted because he is gay - and even that it might be right because he is gay.

But it is also the source of the alarm. LGBTQ people are currently under attack. Obergefell (and the rights to have relationships with both parents which came from t) is not stable ground on which to rest. Just as Roe was not. Long term, the same folks who plotted for two generations to overturn Roe are beginning their plot to overturn Obergefell . . . starting with the dramatically increased attacks on trans individuals.

The fact that this attack was politically motivated should always be coupled with the reality that he was targeted because he is a gay man - rather than viewing it merely as political.

regarding whether it was ‘gay’ related or ‘politically’ related. And yes, there is reason to be alarmed. To be honest, I can see some demented ‘tRump-humper’ thinking he had just scored a double play - perking up the ears of MAGAs and homophobes everywhere.
Either way - they need to be SHUT DOWN - and we MUST do it at the polls in November - with a BLUE
TSUNAMI!

I believe it goes into effect this summer.

https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/new-york-governor-signs-law-to-end-anonymous-reporting-of-child-maltreatment/269804

A friend of mine worked for CPS for years. My friend was frustrated often because while you need to take any tips on abuse seriously, bad actors out there did make false allegations as a way of harrassing people.

. . . but it's good to know! Thanks for posting!

welcome to the hell...Privileged Pete.

If you weren't outraged BEFORE THIS.... wake the hell up people. This is exactly the kind garbage that average Americans are experiencing and furious about.

I got dragged into court over a loan I supposedly took out and never paid. The judge would not accept my real id or any proof as evidence when the clerk brought me to him, to get him to dismiss it, as mistaken identity, on the day I received the warrant. Judge stated, "I want to hear what the attorney has to say." White, male, cis, straight, christian judge was very snippy to me and uttered something about the righteousness of ZEALOUS lawyers.

So I spent 6 months, was forced to make 4 appearances, over a MISTAKEN IDENTITY! No less than 8 pieces of ID (different b-day, different sex, different race, different signature, different address, etc) and the judge would not dismiss it! The lawyer, who went thumbing through the "white pages" and landed on me as his next victim as he searched for the right FIRST NAME, LAST NAME similar to mine, was definitely on coke or some kind of upper when he showed up to the first court date. I was furious. My fiances were completely frozen by the judge for 6 months! Finally, after the 3 court appearance, the judge forced him to produce the loan paperwork at the 4 continuance, and the signature was not only not mine, it was a different middle initial, different sex, different race....etc.

The bastard lawyer didn't even have the damn paper work nearly the entire 6 months!

I immediately filed against a complaint with the bar association. Who basically responded with, "we don't care" and that "this doesn't reach the level that warrants anything be done" in a blue state! Blah, blah, blah...we want zealous lawyers....blah, blah, blah.

Welcome to the new world order. Guilty till proven innocent. Money over human beings. Perception over reality. Judgements and assumptions over facts. Christian nationalists and their bible is the new law.

We have SO much to do to truly “Make America Great Again” - and this crowd ain’t doing it!

but tying up resources that could be investigating/acting on real cases. Thanks for the link. Rec'd.

And they know they will be found out but they hope the lie will stick in the minds of their supporters. And they will continue to do this until the Dems start suing them and get them to serve jail time.

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143685291 - "The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk"

Whatever the "crimes" he was supposed to have confessed to were, I guess they involved children, or CPS wouldn't have had the nerve to separate his children from him and question them.

Yes, it's all a ridiculous heap of hearsay, and I think they must have found someone very homophobic and/or anti-Democrat in CPS for them to have tried this. This was in Michigan, as far as I can tell; I hope there's an investigation on how this got to separating his children from him for a day.

... I can't prove it, but that's what I think.

r too often just personal grudges being prosecuted w the tax dollars of the accused.
i’ve had more than my fair share, and when ppl were told they needed to actually sign a complaint, poof.

there are MAGATs in all agencies of the government. This decision was likely made by one of them in the CPS office.

accusations rec'd via some random call or msg of abuse, w/o any confirmation of such acts. Such people should also be charged w/ making a false report. This is totally irresponsible.

There is no question of plausibility……they just plod along and check off issues from a list.

Peace ☮️