Pete Buttigieg briefly separated from children after false police report - BBC News

Buttigieg says the day he spent separated from his twins was "among the darkest hours of my life".

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Pete Buttigieg, the former US transportation secretary, has revealed he was forced to spend a night away from his children because of an anonymous allegation against him, which police say they later determined to be false.

Michigan State Police found no evidence to substantiate the claim and believed it was politically motivated, the Democrat said.

After receiving an anonymous report that he posed a danger to his children, the police arranged forensic interviews for his four-year-old twins and notified him that he could not be alone with the children until interviews were conducted, he said.

Michigan State Police told the BBC the anonymous allegation against Buttigieg was false.