Quote: (CNN) -- The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week. ...While a federal magistrate and a three-panel appeals court found the search was reasonable, the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Redding last year. "Common sense informs us," wrote the court, "that directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen ... was excessively intrusive." http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/19/scotus.strip.search/index.html
Quote: In an affidavit, Redding said, "The strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had. I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry." They didn't find any Ibuprofen in her book bag, so they took it further and made the girl strip to her underware. The court said the school went too far in its effort to create a drug- and crime-free classroom. "The over zealousness of school administrators in efforts to protect students has the tragic impact of traumatizing those they claim to serve. And all this to find prescription-strength ibuprofen." ************************************* The school system is so scared about sexual harassment allegations, yet they strip search a young girl over Ibuprofen.
