“I’m Gonna Get You”: D’Amato Calls CPS on a Minor Live, Then Threatens to Sue His Parents

After completing the call, he reported back to his audience that CPS intake staff had accepted the report, named William, Lara, and Scott as individuals he identified to the agency, and said he had provided the contact information of a detective named Gomez who he stated was already investigating one of those individuals. D’Amato also claimed on stream to be an ordained minister and a mandatory reporter, citing that status as part of his justification for filing. 

Later in the stream, after chat indicated that [S.] had filed or was considering filing a police report against him, D’Amato responded with a series of stated legal threats. He said he would contact his lawyer and the police, threatened to sue [S.]’s parents, and stated that a civil lawsuit would allow him to compel production of [S.]’s text messages and online communications. 

He also described the minor’s house and its contents in speculative terms, saying he would take them through litigation. D’Amato additionally claimed on stream that he or people connected to him had placed informants as moderators inside the channels of [S.], Danny, Lara, and others he named as adversaries. He said, “my people are mods in all of your chats,” and told those channel operators to try to figure out who those individuals are.

D’Amato makes clear in the same breath that the CPS call will happen regardless of viewership: “I’m gonna do it either way okay I’m doing it either way.” The like-button demand is framed as a condition for the audience to be present during the call, not a condition for the call itself. The clip establishes that the CPS report was planned before the stream began and was presented to the audience as the morning’s main event.

D’Amato characterizes the CPS call as a counter-move against what he calls illegal retaliation following a prior criminal report he says he filed. He also says of those defending [S.]’s channel access, “they want to watch a little boy,” framing anyone critical of his actions as having predatory motives. The clip documents D’Amato publicly linking the CPS report to an ongoing interpersonal dispute he had with a minor, then 16 years old, on camera and in real time. D’Amato was 54 years old at the time of this video.

D’Amato does not identify the alleged informants by name and presents this as a claim directed at his rivals, telling them: “figure out who that is, good luck.” Whether the claim is accurate is unverified; what is documented is that D’Amato made it publicly, on stream, to an audience that included people who said they were watching from those channels.

D’Amato states he named William, Lara, and Scott to the agency and provided Detective Gomez’s contact information, describing it as “complete truth and transparency.” He also leaves open what the agency will do, acknowledging, “maybe they’ll throw it in the fucking garbage, I don’t know.” The clip is the on-stream record of the report being confirmed as filed.

D’Amato also solicits a screenshot for submission to an email address, the nature and recipient of which are not clarified in this clip. He frames his own conduct as lawful, saying, “I’m making good faith reports, I’m not doing anything illegal.” The clip documents D’Amato applying the label of predator to any viewer or participant who criticized the CPS filing.

D’Amato also states that he intends to call the police every time he sees [S.] outside from now on, and speculates about taking the family’s house and chickens through a lawsuit. He hedges at one point, saying “he might be just talking, it might not exist,” referring to [S.]’s alleged report, before continuing with the litigation statements anyway. The clip documents D’Amato making extended on-stream statements about suing a minor’s parents and obtaining the minor’s private communications through civil discovery.

D’Amato states he told intake that [S.] might attempt to delete videos, and that the agency could still obtain them. These are D’Amato’s characterizations of what he communicated to CPS; what the agency received or acted on is not established in this clip. The clip documents D’Amato directing his audience’s attention to the prospect of investigators reviewing a minor’s YouTube channel as a direct result of his report.

D’Amato states he requested anonymity from CPS due to the retaliation he described earlier in the stream, while also noting he provided names to them.

D’Amato states he already has “several” comments logged as harassment and retaliation, framing future comments from those communities the same way. The clip documents D’Amato directing remarks at named rivals and their audiences, stating that any further comment from them will be treated as harassment.

D’Amato’s claim to mandatory-reporter status rests on his stated status as an ordained minister, which he raised earlier in the stream. The clip documents D’Amato invoking that framing on stream as justification for the filing.

D’Amato follows the “grown men hunting” remark by saying he would “feel extraordinarily bad” if something happened to [S.] and frames the CPS call as an attempt to prevent that outcome. The claim that he has infiltrated [S.]’s moderation team is unverified; the clip documents D’Amato making that claim on stream while also describing [S.]’s channel audience in terms he characterizes as predatory.

The May 30, 2024 stream provides an on-camera record of D’Amato filing a CPS report targeting a named minor, disclosing the names of individuals he reported to the agency, claiming to have placed informants inside multiple rivals’ moderation teams, and threatening civil litigation against the minor’s parents, all within a single broadcast.

Sources

• Original YouTube Video
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• Date: 2024-05-30
• Stream ID: YOUTUBE · 7qNpeVw37xg