英国伦敦警察对650名未成年人脱衣搜身!英媒:包括处在经期的女生(图)
多家英国媒体报道称,超过600名儿童遭伦敦警察厅“侵入性和创伤性”的脱衣搜身( "intrusive and traumatising" strip-searches)。
据英国《独立报》报道,英国儿童事务专员透露数据显示:从2018年到2020年,约650名年龄在10岁至17岁的青少年接受了脱衣搜查。95%的脱衣检查是针对男孩进行的,其中58%是黑人。
Some 650 aged between 10 and 17 were strip-searched by the force's officers
between 2018 and 2020. Of these children, 58 percent were described by the officer
as being Black, and more than 95 percent were boys.
据《卫报》报道,英国法律规定,除非紧急情况,否则对未成年人的脱衣搜身需要有“合适的成年人”在场,通常是父母或监护人,也可以是社会工作者、照顾者或志愿者。但在23%的案例中,没有“合适的成年人”在场,比如父母或社会工作者,这与指导原则相悖。
...in almost a quarter of cases (23%) an appropriate adult was not present during the search, despite this being a requirement under statutory guidance.
《卫报》在报道中还提及了2020年一起引发公众愤怒的“脱衣搜查”事件。
当地一名15岁的黑人女学生被怀疑携带大麻入校,在明知她处在经期的情况下,女警对其进行脱衣搜身,且当时没有“合适的成年人”陪同。
The commissioner launched her investigation following widespread outrage over the
case of Child Q, a 15-year-old schoolgirl who was strip-searched by female Met
officers in 2020 after she was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis at her east
London school.
此事对该学生造成严重精神创伤,也引发英国社会对未成年人权益保护的关注,多地民众示威抗议。
有关机构审查后认为,种族主义“或是此次脱衣搜身的其中一个原因”。