'I could not believe this was happening': Teen recounts Splendour strip-search

A 16-year-old girl, allegedly strip-searched illegally at Splendour in the Grass, has described the "humiliating" experience of taking her clothes off in front of a police officer after being falsely detected by a sniffer dog.

"I could not believe this was happening to me; I could not stop crying; I was completely humiliated," the teenager, whose identity has been suppressed, said.She said she was told to squat and was even asked to remove her panty liner inside her underwear for inspection. She said she was escorted away with her hands in the air and she could hear other revellers saying out loud that police "had someone".The teenager said that, while this was happening, she was asked how old she was, to which she replied that she was 16.

Police are only permitted to carry out field strip-searches if the urgency and seriousness of the situation requires it and, in the case of minors, if a parent or guardian is present, unless an immediate search is necessary to protect the person or prevent the destruction of evidence. Children under 10 cannot be strip-searched.

🤔 I think there’s more to this story. I’m sure the media will drip feed the rest very soon.

Sums up Byron Bay these days perfectly

This is discussing.

We live in a POLICE STATE its as simple as that

A) you weren't 'falsely detected' - at some point in the preceeding 24hrs you were using or in contact with those using drugs B) 16 yr old's should only be intimately searched/questioned, after caution, by police in the presence of their parent/guardian

charge the police for indecent assault

Can’t win either way. A Pinger dies & everyone is sooking to high heaven. Cops come in a start search’s everyone is sooking to high heaven. Now they want pill testers & doctors on site. Only 2 options. No drugs or deaths. You can’t help some people.

Perverted

Pervy dog

Get the bloody dogs out of our lives, manage drugs properly & stop wasting valuable policing resources. This heavy handed, boarding on mass mental hysteria has & is not working. When is this message going to get thru to those idiotic politicians & police.Are they so thick headed

They only need to allege and they win, it’s what they do these days. She’ll get a sneaky little payoff for her efforts.

Absolutely disgusting and massive breech of rights. This has to stop

Perves

Oopsee!?

fake news

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