Mar 30 2009
Girl, 13, Strip Search Going to Supreme Court.
A thirteen year old girl was strip searched at school because another student said she had drugs on her.
“What kind of drugs could one possibly suspect a 13 year old girl of having, in order to justify checking every virgin crevice for narcotics?”
Would be the logical question. And the logical answer would be some mythical drug that when taken instantly kills everyone within a 100 mile radius.
Unfortunately there is nothing logical about this case. The girl was accused (by another student keep in mind) of having Ibuprofen.
IBUPROFEN!!!!
And so she was strip searched.
Of course nothing was found. She had never before brought drugs to school. In fact she was a great student with practically no history of discipline problems. The whole thing was based on the word of another 13 year old girl. Now four years later the case has made its way to the Supreme Court.
Is the school district apologizing? Have they seen the error of their ways? No, they say “just because she wasn’t caught, doesn’t mean she wasn’t guilty.”
You’d be suprised how many kids at the age of 15 have alreadyd dropped acid and whatnot a shitload of times.
So you never know…
angrycynic,
I think you’re missing the amount of trama caused to a 13 year old girl stripped completely naked by complete strangers.
And I also think your missing how steep and slippery the slope is, if we allow strip searches of minors, or anyone, with no real cause.
This was a case of either very stupid, or very sick adults having criminally poor judgement.
There was a time in this country when all sorts of action could be taken against one, lawful or not, based on the accusations of a child.
They were called witchhunts.