Though Gilmore tried to explain her son’s medical condition and even presented the TSA agents with a card which explained the position of the rods, the workers still subjected the disabled teen to an invasive body search.
Parents told WVEC 13NEWS: “We had to hold his arms out. He went down with the back of his hands through his bottom around to the front and up through his groin area.”
*Reporter’s note: It is difficult for anyone to understand the need for or even the legality of such offensive contact, let alone for someone with autism.
Imagine this disabled young man’s fear as he was being groped by a stranger with his parents looking on.
How much longer will the flying public tolerate government-sanctioned assaults on their children?
http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-norfolk/was-autistic-teen-assaulted-by-tsa-worker
