‘US security’ makes old lady remove adult diaper
US:Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers have patted
down a cancer-stricken, 95-year-old woman and forcibly removed her adult
diaper during an airport search. The incident occurred on June 18, when
the ailing woman was traveling with her daughter, Jean Weber, from
Florida to Michigan to visit relatives “in the final stages of her
battle with leukemia.”
Weber told CNN on Sunday that while she thinks the officers may have
been “procedurally correct, but the procedure needs to be changed.”
“My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia,” Weber said. “She
had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength
for this travel.”
The 95-year-old lady was taken by a TSA officer into a glassed-in
area, where a pat-down was performed, Weber further explained.
An agent told Weber “They felt something suspicious on (her mother’s)
leg and they couldn’t determine what it was” leading them to take her
into a private, closed room. Weber went on to say that a TSA agent came
out and told her that her mother’s undergarment was “wet and it was
firm, and they couldn’t check it thoroughly.”
The mother and daughter left to find a bathroom, at the TSA officer’s
request, to remove the adult diaper.
Weber pointed out that she “burst into tears” but her mother was
“very calm” even though she was forced to go through the airport without
underwear. Weber said she asked for her mother to be whisked away to the
boarding gate without her, because their plane was scheduled to leave in
two minutes and Weber was still going through security.
Tuesday, Press TV
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