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The Transportation Security Administration has apologized after the family of a wheelchair-bound 3-year-old girl with spina bifida was pulled aside and told she would receive a pat-down.
The family was heading to Disney World when the incident took place on February 9. It was "really strange and stressful," said Nathan Forck, the girl's father.
His daughter, Lucy, was taking her first big airline trip. "She didn't know what to expect," he said. "She was pretty upset."
In a video taken by her mother and posted on YouTube with the title "Shh! TSA Wants to Touch Your Kids," Lucy appears visibly distraught. Sitting in her hot pink wheelchair, Lucy weeps, crying for her stuffed lamb doll. A TSA agent can be overheard telling Lucy's mother, Annie Shulte, to stop her "illegal" recording. There is discussion by the agents over whether to give Lucy a pat-down.
http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-a...wheelchair-bound-daughter-would-get-1C8481122
Insensitive lot!
The family was heading to Disney World when the incident took place on February 9. It was "really strange and stressful," said Nathan Forck, the girl's father.
His daughter, Lucy, was taking her first big airline trip. "She didn't know what to expect," he said. "She was pretty upset."
In a video taken by her mother and posted on YouTube with the title "Shh! TSA Wants to Touch Your Kids," Lucy appears visibly distraught. Sitting in her hot pink wheelchair, Lucy weeps, crying for her stuffed lamb doll. A TSA agent can be overheard telling Lucy's mother, Annie Shulte, to stop her "illegal" recording. There is discussion by the agents over whether to give Lucy a pat-down.
http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-a...wheelchair-bound-daughter-would-get-1C8481122
Insensitive lot!
