VA: Strip-Searching of 8-Year-Old at Prison Leads Virginia to Halt the Practice
Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia on Friday ordered the suspension of a policy that allows prison officials to strip-search children after an 8-year-old girl was told to remove her clothes before being allowed to see her father, an inmate.
An 8-year-old girl visiting her father at a Virginia prison was strip searched last month in violation of state policy, authorities said.
“The incident is deeply troubling and represents a breach in our protocol,” said Lisa Kinney, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, in a statement to CNN. “We sincerely apologize to this child and her family.” The child was visiting her father, who is an inmate at Buckingham Correctional Center, Kinney said. The girl was accompanied by an adult visitor who was not her parent or legal guardian.The staff member who ordered the search didn’t have the authority to do so and is facing disciplinary action, Kinney said.
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I have a friend in Virginia who is an RSO. He completed is debt to society and in Virginia his voting rights were automatically restored…unlike draconian Florida.
It sounds like sexual assault to me. Not battery, but definitely assault.