Posted on 03/15/2010 1:17:13 PM PDT by 444Flyer
A Transportation Security Agency worker who pats down members of the flying public was charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl yesterday.
The bust outraged privacy and passenger advocates who say it justifies their fears about Logan International Airport’s full-body scanner.
“It’s a huge, huge issue,” said Kate Hinni of FlyersrRights.org. “The TSA needs a complete overhaul . . . If you have a pedophile looking at those naked pictures, they’ve got all your information, it’s a gross violation of their authority. . . . They should make sure none of them is corrupted in any deviant sexual manner.”
Sean Shanahan, 44, of Winthrop was held on $50,000 bail after he was charged with two counts of statutory rape, two counts of enticing a minor and one count of indecent assault and battery. He was arrested yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he had checked himself in after a suicide threat, prosecutors said.
TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis said Shanahan had passed two background checks, neither of which picked up any record that would prevent him from getting a job.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Thank God I have private aircraft to fly instead of heading to the airlines. That crap is beyond reasonable.
Perhaps they can hire just medical doctors to man those scanners from now on.
Lucky you.
Medical folks are immune from being perverts?
To uncover a human body is to invite evil into your heart ... and I don't care nor buy into someone being strong ... 'cause I think that's bullshit.
Men can't look at female bodies young or old day after day and come out of it unscathed.
The answer to all this security and invasion is to close off America to everyone for a time ... a year or two.
The world will be forced to deal with their own selves and populations without having us to run to.
Well that makes me feel all warm inside. How about you?
No but turn your head and cough just sounds better coming from someone in a white lab coat.
(I'm a wannabe)
Is this the TSA agent who was also into sadism? And they tell us not to take it personally when they humiliate passengers in public.
Does that include male OB/GYNs?
Well he is one sick perv .
But I am not sure what his being a screener has to do with this?
The poor child he went after was a frined of his daughter.
I am not defending him in anyway but I don’t think as a screener he would look at the body scan screen shots and decide to go after a young girl based on that.
Unless he has an arrest record for this there would have been no reason not to hire him
I think it means he is just one sick perv who should be locked away forever.He could have been a Cop a teacher, a Doc, a judge etc etc.
Reason #78423874238047238907320 that airport security should be handled by the military. At least you have less of a chance of getting an unprofessional pervert frisking your underage daughter.
Sorry ... best this horny-for-my-wife-all-the-time male can conclude
Well he is one sick perv .
But I am not sure what his being a screener has to do with this?
The poor child he went after was a frined of his daughter.
I am not defending him in anyway but I don’t think as a screener he would look at the body scan screen shots and decide to go after a young girl based on that.
Unless he has an arrest record for this there would have been no reason not to hire him
I think it means he is just one sick perv who should be locked away forever.He could have been a Cop a teacher, a Doc, a judge etc etc.
Mainly single props; 172, Turbo 182, DA-40, B-36, that type of small stuff. I would rather take a day and fly myself than take that same day and try to fly the airlines. We’re in Denver so we’re centrally located to fly both coasts.
If you’re a wannabee, jump in. Go to your local airport, sign up for ground school, and let it take you from there. You’ll learn far more than you ever thought you’d needed to and will most likely enjoy it all.
Don’t worry. Obama wants to beef up security for private aviation.
We know, we know. The TSA is a hammer and everything is looking like a nail. McCain is no friend of ours, either.
If time’s no care, then go by air.
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