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Former Miss USA: I was 'molested' by the TSA
By Ben Abramson, USA TODAY
Former Miss USA Susie Castillo protested after an enhanced pat-down by a TSA screener at DFW.
Weeks after generating an uproar for the aggressive screening of a six-year-old child in New Orleans, the TSA is again facing critcism for an enhanced pat-down.
Former Miss USA Susie Castillo says she was "molested" by a TSA screener at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport after declining to go through a body scanner due to radiation concerns.
According to a detailed account from the Dallas Morning News, Castillo wrote "My private area was grazed four times!" on a complaint card after the screening.
Castillo immediately shot a tearful video recounting the episode more explicitly and posted it on YouTube. The Boston Herald quotes from the video: "That's why I'm crying, that's why I'm so upset. They're making me choose to either get molested, because that's what I feel like, or go through this machine that's completely unhealthy and dangerous."
TSA spokesman Luis Casanova defended the screening procedure. "Everything [the screener] did was according to protocol," Casanova said. "The issue at hand here is Ms. Castillo's feelings about the pat-down, whether it was done correctly. It was done correctly. She has discomfort about it. For that, we're sorry," he tells
The Morning News.
Castillo also pointed out that DFW's screening machines are electromagnetic, hence not a source of radiation like the backscatter models used in many airports
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Sure you were. I'll tell Ds, err vm, tomorrow! :)
OTOH in his defense the screening agent did give a $20 tip...