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her crotch and her breasts and everything else. reporter: joe, her son, believes security went too far. the daughter says the officers were polite, but they could have done more to protect peterson s privacy, by patting down those private parts away from the public. to me, i can t understand with all the people in an airport why they would pick out some little old lady. reporter: marian is all for security, but for those she says who might actually pose a threat. this is really tough to decide. it is. because at the same time a terrorist wouldn t discriminate and might put it on an older person thinking, oh, surely they ll get by. unbeknownst to them. exactly. and remember, there was the lady just recently who was asked to remove her adult diaper. yes. and she was in her 90s too. right. you have to think we can take these people into a private area and go through that at the very least. it is our question of the day at wnnfans.com. i ve been reading through a lot
elderly woman subjected to an extreme search by security agents. this time it s a 94-year-old woman who says that agents went too far. wtvd s shea christian reports from raleigh. i didn t think i was much of a threat to anybody. reporter: marian peterson may not be a threat but earlier this month she was randomly picked by the tsa to be scanned at rdu before her flight back home to florida. the officers lifted her out of her wheelchair, helped her stand in the scanner. then said she would need to be patted down. her daughter marian malone was with her. i asked, i said, why are you doing this? and the woman was very polite and said, i don t know. maybe the scanner detected something, or maybe she moved. she said it would be in-depth. she started the pat down and at that point she asked mom to spread her legs. mom stood there with her legs spread. and she checked every place thoroughly. you know, all her body. you know.