Response to NYT article "Strip-Search of Young Girl..." (3/24/09)

After reading this article i was infuriated. The terms in which the search was conducted of this 13 year old girl were completed unwarranted. Strip searching a child for possession of advil?! it is completely ridiculous. The school system had absolutely no right to strip search her, especially without the consent of a parent. The school should have contacted her parent if they had suspicion her having possession of a drug. The school system said that the search was "not excessively intrusive in light of Redding's age and sex and the nature of her suspected infraction." First of all, this statement very simply shows that the school profiled Redding. Secondly, the "nature of her suspected infraction"?!?! Her suspected infraction was having prescription advil! Not, marijuana, vicadin, or heroine. A strip search was in no way warranted for her "infraction".