Thu, Jul 14, 2011
Refused To Allow TSOs To Administer A Pat-Down Search Of Her
Daughter
A woman from Clarksville, TN was arrested and charged with
disorderly conduct Saturday after she refused to allow her daughter
to be patted down at a security checkpoint at Nashville
International Airport (KBNA).
The 41-year-old woman and her daughter, whose age was
unspecified, were traveling from Nashville to Baltimore on
Southwest on Saturday. When they were selected for additional
screening, the mother, identified as Andrea Fornella Abbot,
allegedly yelled and swore at TSA agents. The Tennessean
reports that in the police report, authorities wrote that Abbot
said she did not want her daughter "touched inappropriately" or
"crotch-grabbed."
She also refused the full body scan. Airport security officer
Sabrina Birge told the paper that Abbot "told me in a very stern
voice that they were not going through that X-ray." Birge says she
informed them that the scanner was safer than the radiation emitted
from a cell phone and used technology similar to a sonogram, but
Abbot still refused. The police report says she said the didn't
want anyone "seeing our bodies naked."
Abbot also tried, unsuccessfully, to take a video with her cell
phone, according to reports.
After a recent video showing the pat-down of a six-year-old girl
at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International airport, TSA says it
has changed its policy regarding children. They say they have
instructed TSOs to avoid invasive pat-down searches of kids, and
say the new guidelines should "reduce" the number of pat-downs
conducted on children.
Abbot was released from a Nashville jail after posting $1,000
bond on the disorderly conduct charge.
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