Are they worried the children will follow in their parents footsteps?
Posted on 12/13/2009 3:51:29 PM PST by libh8er
The Florida Department of Children and Families, escorted by deputies from the Orange County Sheriff's Department, visited Tiger Woods' home near Windermere on Saturday, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively.
Capt. Angelo Nieves of the Orange County Sheriff's Department confirmed to RadarOnline.com: "Our deputies met with members of the Department of Children and Families. But all details are being kept secret."
Nieves would neither confirm nor deny that the deputies and DCF officials went to Woods' house.
But a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com that the visit was in fact to Woods' home and that it occurred around mid day.
The source also tells RadarOnline.com that the deputy's car was a marked car, while the Florida Department of Children and Families' car was unmarked.
It's a shocking twist in a scandal that seemingly has no boundaries. The visit stems from the events leading up to Tiger's bizarre one-car crash right after Thanksgiving.
Reports from that incident indicated there was a heated altercation between Tiger and wife Elin over his cheating. Now, the presence of DCF at Tiger's house adds credence to those reports as it is protocol for DCF to investigate after an in-home suspected domestic violence incident.
Typically investigators from DCF would want to evaluate the safety of a home for children after a domestic violence incident.
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Officials were at the home for roughly an hour, sources told RadarOnline.com exclusively.
Woods two young children were at home during Thanksgiving when the golfer and Elin allegedly got into a heated argument. Elin and Tiger are parents to two-year-old daughter Sam and 10-month-old son Charlie.
Florida Highway Patrol initially investigated Woods' car crash and the golfer refused to talk to them when they tried to schedule follow-up interviews. But refusing to talk to DCF when it is conducting an official investigation can lead to severe repercussions by state law.
It is not known if Tiger was home when the investigators were there.
Friday night, the world's top golfer issued a statement on his Web site in which he announced he's taking an indefinite break from the sport he's dominated for more than a decade.
Woods' announcement came two weeks after he drove his Cadillac Escalade over a fire hydrant and into a neighbor's tree. Woods has not been seen in public since the crash, and in the days since, he has now been linked to more than 10 women accusing him of being unfaithful to his wife of five years.
It would not be unusual for it to take this long for DCF investigators to make a home visit stemming from an incident that took place at Thanksgiving, an expert familiar with the situation told RadarOnline.com.
Uh oh.
He’s toast now.
My mistake. I searched ‘child protection’ under title and nothing showed up.
I don’t think it’s a duplicate. It’s just an earlier thread (I think the it was the “breaking” thread).
The socialist left weighs in to destroy a family? Look, the kids are with mom and grand mom.
I swear, the statists can’t leave well enough alone, and now?
“Tiger abuses his KIDS?” will be everywere? It had better be factual or heads are gonna roll over this one, while the little lefty child protectors apply standards which are hardly family oriented, and promote the politically correct standard of sexuality and kids.Next thing you know Tiger’s kids will be adopted by a gay couple.
Are they worried the children will follow in their parents footsteps?
Stupid jackass just can’t keep his golf club out of things...
Sorry...but as much as I have distaste for Tiger’s actions...this is overboard and strictly State Overreach! I have much more disgust for government entry into private lives of families...
What is their evidence of abuse...?
Oh, I forgot, this is Child Protective Services we’re talking about. They don’t need evidence or subpoena power.
If TW doesn’t “cooperate” with them, they will remind him that he is merely the caretaker of the children living in his house, and the state actually owns them.
When mama is swinging a deadly weapon and daddy has other women in the house while mama is nursing its time for foster home for the kiddos!!
Maybe so, but what is the evidence that that happened?
Neither of them can leave the confines of their home without being mobbed - they are prisoners.
Time to pack it in and go to Norway - or Timbuktu - anywhere but here in the nanny state - and the UK is even worse. Scotland, the birthplace of golf, would probably welcome them with enthusiasm.
Tigers fits of rage on the golf course are common knowledge. The week before all this broke loose, Tiger tossed his driver into the crowd at the Australia tournament he played in. I have always wondered if he was able to control his temper at home while not being able to control it at work.
I think what they're after is Elin - I think they have reason to believe she clonked him good with a golf club. And in Florida, it doesn't matter if the spouse files - the state will anyway.
Leave them the he*l alone...I had hoped they'd gotten out of dodge - off to Norway or somewhere -
This is ridiculous.
The people that are milking this story are going to drain every drop of blood they can even if it hurts people.
They are the sick bunch; not Woods and his family. Woods shouldn’t have done what he did; but to keep a story going is really sick by including the children.
Look what Obama did. He accepted an award he did not deserve and had his children there to watch him lie.
Also, Mrs Woods has purchased a farm on an island off Sweden-Gotland. I think it is the only place they can escape the press for the good of the children.
It's good he took the time off. He's already the best in the game. Nothing to prove there. Enough money. Family matters first and foremost.
The lame brain media are Basterds for a story.
Agreed, thanks for the farm news. My heart goes out to this family. I hope it can survive.
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