The FBI has arrested a suspect in the fake bomb threat that was made at Boston Children’s Hospital, the agency announced on Thursday.
Boston Children’s Hospital contacted law enforcement for assistance to help protect its employees and patients who were receiving “a large volume of hostile internet activity, phone calls, and harassing emails including threats of violence toward our clinicians and staff,” asThe threats were particularly aimed at its Gender Multispecialty Service program, which is the first of its kind in the United States.
The posts that were shared by far-right social media accounts claimed the program was performing surgeries on “young girls.” The hospital refuted that claim, saying it does not perform gender-affirming hysterectomies on any patient under the age of 18. Additional posts circulated, which suggested the hospital performed other genital surgeries on children. The hospital toldthat it “does not perform genital surgeries as part of gender-affirming care on a patient under the age of 18.
The harassment spread to other children’s hospitals nationwide, driven by a campaign led by Libs of TikTok, a Twitter account favored by the likes of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and other right-wing pundits. The account is run by a Brooklyn real estate agent named Chaya Raichik, who began targeting hospitals following a campaign she started accusing
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