Shoebridge says children made to squat in “unlawful” strip searches

February 24, 2020. Redfern Legal Centre’s police powers solicitor Sam Lee alongside NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge in Sydney says “invasive” strip searches were carried out by NSW Police at a minor’s only festival. “There were no parents or guardians allowed at this festival,” Ms Lee says. “There are huge concerns about why strip searches occurred… and whether a child of that age can consent to such searches and bodily procedures.” Mr Shoebridge says that based on communication from children involved in strip searches, “that in the course of those searches they were made to undertake the humiliating process of squatting”. “That is likely unlawful, indeed the entire process that the police undertook is likely unlawful and at the end of the day children will be psychologically damaged and its likely taxpayers will pay a legal bill,” Mr Shoebridge says. (AAP Video/Dominica Sanda) Via news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site https://www.news.com.au