by wire news services
Ex Miss USA abusada por su propio gobierno: Susie Castillo, ex Miss USA, cries after having been sexually touched by a TSA agent at the Airport of Texas.
A former Miss USA, Susie Castillo, was filmed weeping as she described her ordeal at the hands of a TSA agent, who she said sexually assaulted her after she refused to go through a naked body scanner.
In 2003, Castillo was selected as the most beautiful woman in the United States when she won the Miss USA competition. Castillo, 31, who had a video camera, filmed at the airport and complained that she was “violated” by a female TSA agent at a security checkpoint at Dallas airport in Texas. In a blog post dated Monday, April 24, Castillo recounts (http://www.susiecastillo.net/blog/2011/4/25/my-tsa-pat-down-experience.html) what happened to her.
The former beauty queen, who is now an actress, said she decided to stand in a longer line to avoid going through the full body scanner because she had heard the extra radiation could be a health risk.
After opting out,” I proceeded to follow a very nice older female TSA employee to the “pat down” area. It was an inconvenience, but I thought, “No biggie. I just went through document his at LAX for the fi rst time and it wasn’t too bad, so let’s just get it over with.” Well, this pat down was completely different. It was MUCH MORE invasive than my fi rst one at LAX, just a week before. To say that I felt invaded is an understatement.
What bothered me most was when she ran the back of her hands down my behind, felt around my breasts, and even came in contact with my vagina! Honestly, I was in shock, especially since the woman at LAX never actually touched me there. The TSA employee at DFW touched private area four times, going up both legs from behind and from the front, each time touching me there. Was I at my gynecologist’s office? No! This was crazy!
‘This woman touched my vagina four times,” the Daily Mail quoted her as saying in a distressed voice. “She went up both legs from behind and then turned around and did it from the front. That was my experience this morning at Dallas airport.
“I am already so upset that they are making me choose to get molested – because that’s what I feel like – or go through a machine that is completely unhealthy and dangerous.
“I travel a ton and I don’t want to be radiated more than I already am. I am crying because I am really, really upset because as an American I have to go through this. I feel violated,” she stated. After complaining to the authorities, she said she was given a TSA comment card to make a complaint. “I am hoping other people that feel violated as Americans make a complaint. Maybe then something will change in the near future. This whole thing is very troublesome to me,” she said.
An elderly airport volunteer told Castillo that it was better to go through an awkward pat down than to be blown up. “I guess I was supposed to find comfort in that and I didn’t. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that this would make me cry,” she added
