TSA Got Too Aggressive With 7-Year-Old Girl's Pat-Down, Dad Claims
(CBS)
April 25, 2012
NEW YORK, NEW YORK– [Excerpt provided by Inclusion Daily Express] The Transportation Security Administration is once again the subject of national scrutiny, this time after aggressively screening a 7-year-old female passenger with cerebral palsy which caused her family to miss their flight.
The girl, identified as Dina Frank in a report by The Daily, was waiting with her family on Monday to board a flight departing from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York headed to Florida.
Since Dina walks with the aid of leg braces and crutches, she cannot pass through airport metal detectors, and must instead submit to a pat-down by TSA agents.
Dina, who is also reportedly developmentally disabled, is usually frightened by the procedure. Her family reportedly requests that agents on hand take the time to introduce themselves to her.
However, the agents on duty at the time began to handle her aggressively instead.
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Family Misses Flight After TSA Gives Pat-Down To Girl With Cerebral Palsy
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