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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – The parents of a 6-year-old woman who got a pat-down at a New metropolis airfield section checkpoint earlier this period said on weekday that there should be assorted display procedures for children.

Dr. character and Selena Drexel of Bowling Green, Kentucky, said that girl Anna was potty by the section procedure, a recording of which has been widely viewed since the kinsfolk posted it on YouTube.

"Afterward, she broke downbound with crying, because she really didn't understand what she had done wrong," character Drexel said on Good Morning America. "We were struggling to vindicate it to her, because we had really heavy to her that it's not OK to be touched in destined places, and today she's been pat downbound in a open setting."

A spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, which is responsible for display passengers and cargo at airports, said that the wager was in line with established procedures.

"TSA has reviewed the incident and observed that this tar followed proper current display procedures," authority spokesman Jim Fotenos said in a statement.

He said that bureau Administrator John Pistole had directed the authority to explore "additional structure to pore its resources and move beyond a one-size fits all grouping patch maintaining a broad level of security."

Fotenos said bureau has been reviewing its policies in an effort "to streamline and meliorate the display experience for low-risk populations, much as junior passengers."

The YouTube recording shows Anna and Selena Drexel at Louis jazzman New metropolis International Airport on Apr 5. A someone bureau screener asks Anna to stand near her care with her blazonry long and does a patdown wager kindred to those routinely performed on adult travelers.

The screener runs her gauntleted safekeeping along both sides of the Anna's nous and along apiece arm; along the sides, face and back of the girl's torso, hips and thighs, and runs both safekeeping along apiece leg from angle to foot. The screener also slides her fingers along the inside of the neckline and waistband of the girl's shirt and jeans, explaining apiece travel of the wager as she goes.

A spokeswoman for the New metropolis airfield declined to interpret on the incident, referring questions to the TSA.

Selena Drexel said on Good Morning USA that the kinsfolk was way bag from a vacation, motion with Anna as substantially as their digit another daughters, ages 9 and 2. She said Anna was selected for a patdown, and that she asked that her girl be rescanned instead but that her request was denied.

"They just said they were feat to do what they were feat to do," Selena Drexel said.

Asked ground she posted a recording of the incident on YouTube, Selena Drexel said that she wanted another grouping to wager it so that she could get others' opinions most it.

"We change that it was inappropriate," she said. "We struggle to teach our children to protect themselves, and to say 'no' and 'it's not OK for folks to touch me in those areas,' and here we are locution it's OK for these people."

Todd Drexel is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bowling Green. A receptionist who answered the phone at his duty on weekday said he was sight patients and was not immediately acquirable for comment.

(Reporting by Kathy European in New metropolis and Steve Robrahn in Louisville, Kentucky; Editing by Corrie MacLaggan and Greg McCune)

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