Savana Redding, 13 year-old Strip Search Is Illegal (Photos)
The 13 year-old Savana Redding was accused by another student of having prescription-strength ibuprofen and strip searched by officials of the Safford Arizona Unified School District. No pills were found.
“Once they got me into my underwear I thought they would let me put my clothes back on,” Savana told CBS News correspondent Hattie Kauffman. “But then they told me to pull out my bra and shake it, and my underwear as well.”
The Supreme Court finally ruled the strip search illegal and that the school officials had violated the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches.
Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw said, “It does not require a constitutional scholar to conclude that a nude search of a 13-year-old child is an invasion of constitutional rights. More than that. It is a violation of any known principle of human dignity.”
Savana, who is now 19 years old and attends college, admitted this incident completely changed her life: “I gave myself ulcers, bleeding ulcers, and I was always worried, mostly about going to school,” she said. Her mother, April Redding said, “They changed my kid, and they need to understand what they took away from her.”
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This should never have happened.
Why isn’t this happening to our young men? If it does why do they not have the physical symtoms this girl has, but it’s just accepted that they become abusers and alcoholics?
It says something about Us.
is this 13 year old girl CRAZY why is she doing this to her self and her family she is way to young what does she know about STRIPING this is so sad.