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TSA Frisks 6-Year-Old: Parents Speak Out (Video)

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ABC News - Dr. Todd and Selena Drexel on what they think about the TSA's enhanced pat down of their daughter.

Washingtonians React to Controversial Pat Down

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

WUSA Channel 9, Washington D.C.
April 12, 2011

Travelers at Reagan National Airport were quick to react to images of a 6-year-old girl undergoing a thorough airport screening pat down. It happened at Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans.

The video which has now gone viral on the internet shows the girl being touched and patted down all over her body including her chest, inside her waistband, her legs, and arms. The TSA agent doing it is seen performing the search in front of the child's mother.

After watching the video Trish Stebbin a mother of a 6-year-old said,

"I would never let my child go through customs and let them do that to her...never!"

The video has outraged so many that the Americans for Civil Liberties Union is now involved in the debate over whether the screener went to far. Louisiana ACLU Executive Director, Marjorie Esman said,

"A child who was audibly complaining I don't want to do this should have at the very least been given some privacy."

Watch the video for yourself and tell us what you think.