Shaun King humiliated by by phony call (from twitter)

[kimbutgar]

51. I also was called once by CPS [child protective services)

My son is autistic and used to pour water on outlets and sneak electronics into his bathtub to hear the sounds of something shorting out. He was about 8 years old then. My husband had a jock lighter that gave a shock and let him use it. We told him that it would hurt even more if he played with the electrician outlet around water. We met with a therapist and my husband told this story. Somehow the story morphed into that we used a stun gun on him and got the call from cps. They came and met with us and we told them the truth. We showed them the lighter. They made us leave and interviewed our son, thank goodness he was verbal enough to talk. Afterwards the woman apologized to us and sent us a letter later exonerating us.


It was so scary for us.