85-year-old says she was strip searched at New York airport

Sunday, December 4, 2011

NEW YORK -- An 85-year-old woman said Saturday she was injured and humiliated when she was strip searched at an airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner, allegations that transportation officials denied.

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