Don't miss
Home   >   News   >   Family Upset After TSA Pats Down Disabled 7-Year-Old

Family Upset After TSA Pats Down Disabled 7-Year-Old

The family of a New York girl – who only recently took her first steps at the age of seven because of cerebral palsy – is blaming the TSA for ruining the start of their vacation by making them miss their flight.

FOX News Radio’s Chris Hoenig has the story from New York City:

Audio clip:

Dina Frank needs special braces to help her walk, braces that kept her from going through standard screening at New York’s JFK Airport on Monday.  Her dad, Joshua, says the TSA agreed to swab the braces instead of doing a patdown.

(Frank) “I think they’re scary for a 7-year-old girl, to throw on the blue surgical gloves and really come at her.”

But agents tracked the family down on line to board their plane, forcing the girl back for a thorough patdown – which the TSA says should have been done in the first place.  The issue, Frank says, isn’t the patdown.

(Frank) “But then the policy needs to be enforced, and be enforced with a little compassion.”

Frank intends to take the matter up with a member of Congress’s Homeland Security Committee.

Chris Hoenig, FOX News Radio.




Related posts:

  1. Secretary Clinton Hospitalized With Blood Clot [VIDEO]
  2. Times Square to Honor Dick Clark on New Year’s Eve
  3. 82-Year-Old WA Man Stops, Tackles Burglary Suspect
  4. 2012 in Review: The Year in News
  5. NRA Chief: Bloomberg Can’t Buy Americans

3 Comments

  1. Robert renner

    April 26, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    The Gestapo screws another one up

  2. Laurel Caperton

    April 27, 2012 at 9:33 am

    What does a terrorist look like?
    Would you want your family on an aircraft that has passengers that have NOT been cleared?
    If terriorists will kill hundreds of innocent passengers, why would they care about one child?

  3. Brandy Gilman Carnes

    April 27, 2012 at 11:12 am

    Why do you report and post on non issues? I don't want to read anymore oh woe is me stories! If you don't like security then don't fly so sick of the me me me mentality of the flying public! Stop blaming everything that goes wrong or you damn bad day on TSA it is ridiculous and immature! Grow up America!