Uturn2001
04-21-2009, 05:55 PM
At issue is whether school officials violated the Fourth Amendment privacy rights of 13-year-old Savana Redding when, in October 2003, they ordered her to take off most of her clothes in a fruitless search for suspected drugs.
The strip search occurred after one of Savana's friends was caught with prescription pills. The friend told officials that she'd received the pills from Savana, an eighth-grade honors student. Officials then pulled Savana out of class to be questioned and, eventually, strip-searched.
Story Here (http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0422/p02s04-usju.html)
While schools need to do what they can to make students safe this goes way too far, especially since the parents apparently were not notified before hand nor were their consent sought.
If anyone one of us would take a kid off the street and make him or her strip to their underwear we would be charged with child molesting at the very least even if we did not touch the kid in any way. I really fail to see or understand how this is really any different.
If it had been my kid I would be attempting to press charges as well as filing a HUGE law suit against the school and everyone involved.
The strip search occurred after one of Savana's friends was caught with prescription pills. The friend told officials that she'd received the pills from Savana, an eighth-grade honors student. Officials then pulled Savana out of class to be questioned and, eventually, strip-searched.
Story Here (http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0422/p02s04-usju.html)
While schools need to do what they can to make students safe this goes way too far, especially since the parents apparently were not notified before hand nor were their consent sought.
If anyone one of us would take a kid off the street and make him or her strip to their underwear we would be charged with child molesting at the very least even if we did not touch the kid in any way. I really fail to see or understand how this is really any different.
If it had been my kid I would be attempting to press charges as well as filing a HUGE law suit against the school and everyone involved.