Woman refused to let officers screen daughter http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110713/NEWS01/307130115/Police-charge-mother-Nashville-airport-altercation
A 41-year-old Clarksville woman was arrested after Nashville airport authorities say she was belligerent and verbally abusive to security officers, refusing for her daughter to be patted down at a security checkpoint.
Andrea Fornella Abbott yelled and swore at Transportation Security Administration agents Saturday afternoon at Nashville International Airport, saying she did not want her daughter to be “touched inappropriately or have her “crotch grabbed,” a police report states.
After the woman refused to calm down, airport police said, she was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to jail. She has been released on bond.
Attempts to reach Abbott on Tuesday were unsuccessful. The report does not list her daughter’s age. The mother and daughter were traveling from Nashville to Baltimore on Southwest Airlines.
“(She) told me in a very stern voice with quite a bit of attitude that they were not going through that X-ray,” Sabrina Birge, an airport security officer, told police.
“No, it’s not an X-ray,” she told Abbott. “It is 10,000 times safer than your cell phone and uses the same type of radio waves as a sonogram.”
“I still don’t want someone to see our bodies naked,” Abbott said, according to the police report.
At one point, Abbott tried unsuccessfully to take a video with her cellphone.
Andrea Fornella Abbott is charged with disorderly conduct.
TSA policy revised
The arrest comes on the heels of public outrage over a video showing a pat-down of a 6-year-old girl at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The April video prompted a new policy that took effect last month in which airport security screeners must try to avoid invasive pat-down searches of children.
TSA says it will instruct screeners how to make repeated attempts to screen young children without invasive pat-downs. The instructions should reduce the number of pat-downs on children, TSA says.
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The presence of TSA is only another sad indictment of our movement toward lack of freedom. I would have reacted the same way to see my daughter mistreated. Fortunately, my daughter is old enough to take care of herself now. Our government is out of control while it serves itself while abusing the multitudes. The only way this kind of shocking conduct from TSA will change is to have more people like this mom react the same way.
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Well of course she was belligerent and verbally abusive! Who wouldn’t be? It’s a parent’s duty to protect their children!
The fact that a woman is arrested for protecting her daughter from being sexually molested and from having nude pictures taken only confirms that the TSA has no intention of going easy on the children as previously claimed.
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exactly, the omission of an age shows the child is less than 6 years old…they are caught in their own lies…Abolish the TSA!
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