The woman’s mother recently shared details of the horrific incident An autistic girl reportedly tried to commit suicide after police strip-searched her while she was menstruating. Speaking to BBC’s File on 4 radio show and podcast, the mother of the 14-year-old mixed-race girl – whose identity is being kept private – claims her daughter was […]

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600 strip searches were carried out on under-18s Following the police strip-searching of a 15-year-old girl, now referred to as Child Q, new data has revealed that the Metropolitan Police have employed full strip searches on kids as young as 10. Between 2018 and 2021, nearly 600 strip searches were carried out on under-18s, according […]

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The girl is now self harms and is in therapy The Metropolitan Police have apologised for strip-searching a black schoolgirl after wrongly being suspected of carrying marijuana. Police were called to a school in Hackney at the end of 2020 by teachers who believed the girl, referred to as Q, was carrying drugs. She was […]

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