Parents under investigation after letting 6-year-old son run full marathon
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Ben and Kami Crawford revealed that child protective services made an unannounced visit to their home to question the young boy.
Ben and Kami Crawford are defending their decision to allow their six-year-old son to run a marathon, while revealing that child services is investigating their family.
The Crawfords shared a photo to Instagram over the weekend showing their youngest child, Rainier, being interviewed by an investigator from Kentucky’s child protective services department.
“Yesterday Child Protective Services (CPS) arrived at our home unannounced and interviewed our children, parents & grandmother,” the family’s Instagram caption read. “This is a scary process because usually children are interrogated away from parents, against their will, and their answers determine the agency’s legal right to take away the kids.”
The family made headlines last week after they shared a post to Instagram showing Rainier’s completion of the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati on May 1.
The couple shared that the young boy “was struggling physically and wanted to take a break and sit every three minutes” at mile 20. Marathons are 26.2 miles (42 kilometres) long.
In the May 2 post, the Crawfords, who run a YouTube channel and website about their family, said their son was “crying and we were moving slow.” In an effort to get him over the finish line, the family said they promised him two sleeves of Pringles if he kept going.