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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Ben Quinn

Black schoolgirl Child Q strip-searched by Met officers suffered mental harm, hearing told

Crowd of protesters with placards
A solidarity rally supporting Child Q in March 2022. Photograph: Sabrina Merolla/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

A black schoolgirl suffered mental harm and felt “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police, a misconduct hearing for three officers has been told.

The girl, who was 15 at the time and has been known as Child Q, was strip-searched in December 2020 at her school in Hackney, east London, while menstruating, having been wrongly accused of possessing cannabis.

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