Child Protective Services Investigate Parents After They Ran Marathon With Their 6 Year Old

The Kentucky couple who came under fire for allowing their 6-year-old son to run in the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati have revealed that they were visited by Child Protective Services.

Ben and Kami Crawford, of Bellevue, shared a photo on Instagram of an official interviewing Rainier, “who adamantly decided that he wanted to run a marathon.”

In the caption, they wrote that Child Protective Services arrived at their home unannounced on Friday “and interviewed our children because leaders in the community are calling running with children wrong.”

District Attorney Steve Franzen of Campbell County, Kentucky, confirmed to “Good Morning America” that child services had visited the Crawfords, but said no determination had been made yet in the probe.

The Crawfords addressed the backlash in an Instagram video posted Saturday.

“The real stuff that we got accused of was dragging Rainier, like physically dragging him on the marathon course after mile 13 and across the finish line,” Ben said.

“If you guys have seen our finish line picture, we all held hands for like the last probably, like, .2, .3 miles. We talked about it ahead of time, like that’s what we’re going to do,” he said.