Transportation Safety Administration screeners in Florida forced a 95-year-old cancer patient in a wheelchair to remove her adult diaper so it could be inspected, it was reported yesterday.
The woman’s daughter, Jean Weber, filed a complaint about the incident, which occurred at Northwest Florida Regional Airport in Fort Walton Beach when the leukemia patient tried to board a plane to be with other family members in Michigan during the final stages of her disease, according to the Panama City Times Herald.
“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”
TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz said, “TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would exploit that vulnerability.”