Buttigieg said he was told an anonymous caller had contacted CPS.
“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,” he said.
He said the officer who responded to his home “made clear that he believed this was politically motivated” and that it would not be referred to a prosecutor.
“Their time and resources were wasted in a cruel, politically motivated hoax that harmed our family,” Buttigieg wrote.
Michigan State Police told the BBC: “This week, the Michigan State Police received an anonymous report.
“The Michigan State Police and Child Protective Services responded and determined the report was false.”
Their statement described such false reports as “dangerous” and that they divert “workers from responding to legitimate emergencies and protecting vulnerable children and families”.
Buttigieg has been the target of LGTBQ attacks in the past.
He wrote that the latest incident occurred shortly after he shared photos of his family on social media for Father’s Day, and indicated it was not lost on him that it took place during Pride Month.
“We’re used to nasty, hateful, and sometimes violent things being said about us and even about our family,” he wrote. “But this is the first time someone managed to invade our lives like this – and drag our children into it.”
Buttigieg and his husband became first-time parents in 2021 when they adopted fraternal twins Joseph August and Penelope Rose.
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