police strip search 12 year old girl

[buzz lighthead]

Check this out:

 

www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/01/28/296095_todays-news.html

 

 

Does anyone else find this completely unacceptable?

 

I'm not sure if the drugs were cannabis or not, that has not been disclosed, but I don't think that's important.

It has become clear to me that the war on drugs is on some shaky legs when this is what's necessary.

Maybe this is the perfect ammo to issue a wake up call to the powers to be?

Help to stand up for this girl. Yes it appears she comes from a family of drug dealers but how is that her fault?

The consensus down here seems to be that she comes from a bogan family so it's O.K.

 

I'd love to read some thoughts

[Phenomenal187]

I found this the other day but I was too disgusted to post it...

 

How they think it's acceptable, even logical to strip search a fucking 12 year old. Not only once, but twice.

 

She's 12. When the dogs come I guarantee she's not the one flushing mummies blow down the drain, not the one hiding crack rock in her underpants, not the one (and it could go on for hours)

 

This is just one of the reasons I can see for legalization.

 

The amount of innocent people who have been inconvenienced like this (or killed) Just does not justify "prohibition"

 

Ask a prohibitionist what the aims of prohibition are... Then ask yourself how they jusify these actions.

[merl1n]

Doing a bit of a google it seems the family were into a bit of meth. Some reports call the mother and/or grandmother the kingpin of a drug ring, but then journos like to exaggerate a bit.

 

But this still does not justify the actions of the police. This sort of behaviour by the police puts them in a worse light than they already are. Their are international conventions and laws that protect minors from such abuses but it seems that police in Tasmania are exempt from such laws. If such searches are to occur then the child should be represented by their own independant lawyers at the time of the search. As the parent maybe the suspect it may not be appropriate for the parent to be the childs rep, in which case the child needs to have fair and free representation. You and I have the right to have our lawyers present, why not a child? And one search should be more than enough. Why two searches? The child may have been acting out of the ordinary but shit their home has been raided, the child strip searched, the other family members detained (by the sounds of it). How the hell is a child to react? With a smile?

 

The reports state that the Tasmanian govt will review the law, but that the police see no breach. I think the police need to check a few blogs, the people see a huge breach. Even the United Nations has the convention of child rights and states

"The Convention does not take responsibility for children away from their parents and give more authority to governments. It does place on governments the responsibility to protect and assist families in fulfilling their essential role as nurturers of children" UNICEF

I believe the mother has the right to take this all the way to the top and no matter what the police or govt say on the subject, morally they have breached all boundaries

[violetgaze]

WTF, this is disgusting. Can't believe it actually happened. Woulda been seriously traumatic for that poor kid...