LF: Video shows mother pleading with TSA agent before girl aged SIX is given airport frisking

Title: Video shows mother pleading with TSA agent before girl aged SIX is given airport frisking
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... ent-year-old-girl-frisked.html
Published: Apr 12, 2011
Author: Daily Mail Reporter
Post Date: 2011-04-12 19:00:06 by Sebastian
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Views: 1592

A new video has emerged showing a TSA worker performing an invasive body search of an innocent young girl.

The disturbing footage shows the little girl, said to be six-years-old, being called forward for a full pat down and finger search by a burly TSA security agent at an unknown American Airport.

Just before the search begins a forlorn looking woman, thought to be the young girl's mother, asks 'can't you just re-scan her', before being told 'no' by the TSA guard as the small child is called forward for the search.

Gripped: the TSA agent probes down the little girl's trousers, running her fingers around the waistband

The gloved guard feels the child all over, poking her fingers down the child's trousers before running her hands around the waist band.

As the female guard touches the child's bottom she says: ' I am touching your sensitive area with the back of my hand.

The irate woman, thought to be the child's mother, can be heard off camera saying: 'They are doing the drugs test on her, the whatever test...on the six-year-old.'

While it is not possible to verify the small girl's age, or when the video was actually shot, the search is just one of several invasive incidents that have enraged air travellers in recent years.

Last year it emerged the TSA were being sued for an incident at the Corpus Christi airport when a woman's breasts were exposed.

An unnamed 23-year-old college student was allegedly singled out for 'extended search procedures' before flying in 2008.

'As the TSA agent was frisking plaintiff, the agent pulled the plaintiff's blouse completely down, exposing plaintiffs' breasts to everyone in the area,' the Amarillo Globe-News quotes the lawsuit as saying.

Calm: The little girl looks bemused by the whole ordeal

Angry: The irate woman believed to be the mother of the child looks on helplessly as her child is searched

Last November the video of a 3-year-old girl being frisked at a Tennessee airport caused national outrage.

Mandy Simon was seen sobbing and pleading with staff at Chattanooga, Tennessee airport.

She had become upset after having to have her teddy bear put through an X-ray machine and can be heard screaming: 'Stop touching me!'

In December last year, University of Cincinnati architecture student Aaron Tobey, 21, was arrested after a protest over the Constitution's Fourth Amendment rule against 56;unreasonable searches and seizures57;.

He exercised his right to opt for a pat-down from agents rather than walk through new x-ray machines and imaging scanners at airport security.

With the wording of the 4th amendment written across his chest, he stripped down to his underwear in the airport on his way to his grandfather57;s funeral, in front of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials.

And earlier this year at least two passengers, including a 54-year-old Missouri City man, complained about airport staff putting their hands down the front and rear of their pants.

Thomas Mollman, 54, said he experienced the controversial 'pat down' when he was travelling through security at Fort Lauderdale Airport.

Mr Mollman, who was wearing shorts at the time of the search, said he was subjected to a 'groping' by a TSA officer, and he believe his experience was tantamount to sexual molestation.

He said: '[The officer] put his hand in between my underwear and my skin and did a 360 all the way around, touching certain sensitive points in the back and the front.'