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By Charles Montaldo, About.com Guide to Crime / Punishment since 2004

Weekly Crime Poll: Strip Search in Middle School

Sunday June 28, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school officials conducted an illegal strip search of a 13-year-old girl.

When Savana Redding was strip searched at Safford Middle School in Arizona officials were looking for the equivalent of two Advils.

Redding, who has described the incident as humiliating, was asked by a school official to "pull her bra out and shake it, and to pull out the elastic on her underpants, thus exposing her breasts and pelvic area."

Poll: Do you agree with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling? Case Background

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