HOUSTON -- A woman is furious that her son was forced to strip naked at a Houston school two times, KPRC-TV reported Wednesday.

Patrick Knox, 17, said pat downs and metal detector checks are routine at Houston Independent School District's Harper Alternative School, but said the principal and a campus officer went too far during a drug investigation in December.

"They told me to take off my pants. I was, like no, I'm not taking off my pants," Knox said.

Knox said he took his clothes off after the school officials would not allow him to call his mother.


"I had my hands on my privates. So then, I had my back turned to them. So then, that's when they told me to turn around and move my hands. I moved my hands. They were just looking at me," Knox said.

The following day, Knox said the school officials said he could either be strip searched again or go to jail.

"That was voyeuristic and pedopheliac behavior. It's sinister and I don't know what they were getting him ready for. Something like this should not happen," Knox's mother, Melva Benton, told the television station.

HISD spokesman Terry Abbott said the principal has been temporarily reassigned, off campus, pending the outcome of an investigation. No action has been taken against the officer involved.

"The student shouldn't have been, even though this was part of an active drug investigation, strip searched," Abbott said.

HISD said the superintendent is investigating the allegations. Officials said they are not sure what happened but said the strip-searching of students is not allowed.

Knox told the television station that other students at the school were also strip-searched.

thats just messed up.

bluesbaby said:

i agree

Disgusting

"They told me to take off my pants. I was, like no, I'm not taking off my pants," Knox said.

Knox said he took his clothes off after the school officials would not allow him to call his mother.




that part right there makes my blood boil... to think that we send our children out into the world to better themselves and then something like this happens to them God help me - i know if i was in this position as a mother i would end up in jail..... or prison for what i would do to them

horrid.

mg

Holy crap!

It's horrible, and Sam Alito thinks strip searches by police on underage children should be allowed. The difference between the police and the school admin?

that poor boy, they treated him like he was a convicted criminal. that mama needs to play it cool and pursue it like a sexual assault or a molestation. Obviously others have confirmed his story because the principal was "reassigned"

we are supposed to teach our kids to trust in the system.



well see where it got this kid



"they wouldn't let me call my mother"

why were they staring at him like that.