Alex Sundby
CBS
June 27, 2011
The Transportation Security Administration defended on Sunday the actions of its airport security officers at a northwest Florida airport after the agency came under criticism for requiring a 95-year-old woman to remove her adult diaper during a pat down.
The incident took place June 18 at Northwest Florida Regional Airport near Pensacola, Fla., while Jean Weber of Destin, Fla., escorted her mother, who suffers from leukemia, to Michigan to live with family members before moving into an assisted living facility, CNN reports.
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“She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel,” Weber told CNN.
Weber didn’t identify her mother to the cable news network.
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