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Old 01-25-2005, 09:20 AM   #1
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Default AUS: Nappy examined in marijuana raid

Nappy examined in marijuana raid
January 25, 2005 | theaustralian.news.com.au | By Greg McLean

NORTHERN Territory police officers searched two tots - one of them a seven-month-old baby - during a drug raid, it was revealed last night.

The children's mother said she will lodge an official complaint with the Ombudsman over the incident.

Tracy Castine told the Northern Territory News last night that police had examined the two tots' nappies explaining they were looking for drugs.

The complaint surrounds the actions of five uniformed police and three detectives during the search of a Katherine residence.

"They didn't even ask my permission to search the nappies and that's what upset me the most," Tracy, 17, said.

Tracy, who did not live at the address, was visiting with her two sons - 17-month-old Hayden and seven-month-old Travis - and only arrived minutes before police executed the raid late last Friday night.

"I thought it was just ridiculous that they would open up the nappies like that looking for drugs," she said.

"It's a seven-month-old baby for Christ's sake, I'm not that stupid as a mother. What do they take people for these days?"

"They looked like idiots going through my kids' nappies like that."

Police searched the entire house but turned up no drugs.

Tracy said her sister lived at the house but had been in Darwin the whole day with her boyfriend and was still not home when police arrived.

"It was just my other sister and a mate of ours," she said.

"The police told us afterwards they had received information that marijuana was being sold from the house earlier that day.

"But my sister who lives there was not even at home all day and we obviously didn't have any drugs on us or they would have found it."

Tracy said she plans to contact Northern Territory Ombudsman Peter Boyce and register an official complaint over the way the search was conducted.

NT Police could not comment on the incident.

Zilos-note: Wow, they were sure desperate to find something.
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Old 01-25-2005, 12:42 PM   #2
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More evidence that policing in many countries (including the USA but in this case Australia) is no longer about protecting the people (or as it says on police cars in Chicago "to serve and protect"). This seems to me more about humiliating a young mother by looking at her sons penis. What right does a cop have to strip search an infant? They say they suspected that CANNABIS WAS BEING SOLD, do they really think that an amount other than that for personal use could be down the diaper of a baby???? Really, did they think the person hid a pound in the pants of a baby, perhaps a dime bag of grass but a POUND????? hell even an ounce would not fit in the pants of a baby......
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Old 01-25-2005, 01:10 PM   #3
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I too would like to know what right a cop has to strip search an infant, which is what was done here. I mean hell a baby is a living being, not a closet or a duffle bag. I'm not sure I could maintian my composure if a cop or anyone for that matter (not that this situation is ever likely to arise) did the same to one of my children. Maybe one of our local experts can shed some light on this subject. Niteshift? Where are you when we need you?
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Old 01-28-2005, 04:25 AM   #4
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Are we sure these were REAL cops and detectives, and not actually a roving band of pedophiles?
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