Thread by @Dr4OurNHS

🧵Thread on #ChildQ.

If #ChildQ (and other strip searches of #children) are tantamount to #ChildRape, what does this say about society which chooses this path, versus a path of treating drugs the same way as alcohol or cigarettes?

We should choose to treat all 3 the same way.

https://twitter.com/BellRibeiroAddy/status/1507325306272690182

#ChildQ

https://twitter.com/David__Osland/status/1507049986332278797

#ChildQ

https://twitter.com/ClaireKeogh10/status/1507677466692890629

#ChildQ

https://twitter.com/NewDayStarts/status/1547354615150247948

#ChildQ
"Schools in England advised to assess risk of strip-search before calling police

Guidance issued after 15-year-old black girl known as Child Q was strip-searched by female police officers in 2020"
theguardian.com/education/2022…

"‘They saw me as calculating, not a child’: how adultification leads to black children being treated as criminals

The police strip-search at school of Child Q caused outrage .. black children are perceived as more mature – and culpable – than white peers"
theguardian.com/society/2022/j…

@AamnaMohdin

@aamnamohdin #ChildQ
lbc.co.uk/news/three-qua…
"Revealed: Most children strip-searched by Met come from ethnic backgrounds

Thousands of strip searches have been carried out by police on children in London in recent years, most of them from ethnic backgrounds" @RachaelVenables
@BellRibeiroAddy

@aamnamohdin @rachaelvenables @BellRibeiroAddy #ChildQ

https://twitter.com/hyfreelance/status/1529001597048655874

@aamnamohdin @rachaelvenables @BellRibeiroAddy Same month as #ChildQ
bbc.com/news/uk-615232…
"A 15-year-old girl who was strip-searched by police was left traumatised by the incident & later tried to kill herself, her mother says.

Olivia* was handcuffed & had her underwear cut off in the presence of male officers, she added"

@aamnamohdin @rachaelvenables @BellRibeiroAddy @AspireParty
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bbc.com/news/uk-615232…
"This case follows that of Child Q - a 15-year-old black pupil who was strip-searched at school after she was wrongly accused of possessing drugs.

Olivia - who is mixed race and autistic - was strip-searched in December 2020, the same month as <#ChildQ>"

Is this colonial policing brought back to the heart of the empire, or was it always like this but now we have social media to report it?

"Olivia* was handcuffed & had her underwear cut off in the presence of male officers, she added"

If above is true, is it legal?
stuartmillersolicitors.co.uk/what-happens-p…
"A strip search must be done outside of public view, and somewhere that officers or anyone else of the opposite sex cannot see"

@StuartMillerLaw

rootedinrights.org/is-strip-searc…
"Is Strip-Searching a Form of Sexual Abuse?

The world needs to know that involuntary commitment is a form of violence, and strip-searches are a type of sexual assault. It is time for victims of medical and psychiatric abuse to be recognized and validated"

@RootedInRights

alternet.org/2014/11/ultima…
"One of the greatest unknowns about prison—certainly one of the most frightening—is the strip search. What is it? What do they do? How can I avoid it? I wasn’t going to write about it, but then I realized it’s the elephant in the room & cannot be ignore."

Above was written by Sue Ellen Allen (@PrisonExpert)