Family Misses Flight After TSA Gives Pat-Down To Girl With Cerebral Palsy

washington.cbslocal.com
April 25, 2012

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.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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