It’s been a rough patch for WUSA reporter Andrea McCarren in the wake of a story she filed earlier this month about how easy it was for some area youths to buy alcohol. Shortly after the report aired, McCarren faced a raft of nasty criticism from youths who spewed on Facebook that she had ruined an easy source of illegal booze.

But it wasn’t just statements like “You are now probably the MOST hated woman in the D.C. area,” that prompted McCarren to recuse herself from presenting the story, it was hearing that her own kids were receiving “insulting and threatening comments” from their high-school classmates, the Post’s Paul Farhi reported last week.

Since she took herself off the air, WUSA anchor Derek McGinty has been presenting McCarren’s reporting on underaged drinking while she’s shared some of the details of the backlash. Yesterday, McCarren went on CNN’s Reliable Sources and told Howard Kurtz a bit more about about what she and her family have experienced:

It’s been horrible, particularly for my teenage children. It has been what I believe is an orchestrated campaign of hate and venom and name-calling and threats, things that I can’t even say on the air.

McCarren, who spent the weekend with a police car stationed outside her house, also told Kurtz that the parents of some of the teenagers in her story were “enabling” their kids’ illicit activities. “I don’t understand parents who condone this behavior and it seems that everybody is upset when some child dies,” she said.

Watch the full interview with Kurtz: