Prior to Being Exposed, Deputies Were Strip Searching Children in Philly Family Court

Not until enough children spoke out about group and individual strip searches did anyone inside this abusive system raise an eyebrow.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – A new family court building in Philadelphia is being accused of indiscriminately strip searching children who entered the premises. Children involved in both criminal and non-criminal cases were searched, including children who were wrapped up in the court system simply because they were victims of sexual abuse. For them, their encounter at the court inflicted deeper trauma on an allready painfull situation.
The inappropriate strip searches were the result of an error in policy that instructed sheriff’s deputies to strip search people upon entering the building, “as a security precaution.”
The new court opened last Monday, at 15th and Arch Streets in Philadelphia, and the policies went into effect immediately, on the first day of operation.
The searches were able to go on for about two days, before enough people complained to force a change in policy.
According to sources of CBS news, juvenile court attendees were taken both individually, and separately, to a room where they were stripped naked by officers and asked to squat and cough.

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