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Down Pat: New Pics Show TSA Giving Enhanced Screening to 8-Year-Old Boy

Down Pat: New Pics Show TSA Giving Enhanced Screening to 8-Year-Old Boy

"Went up" his leg.

Less than a week after video surfaced of a TSA agent giving a 6-year-old girl an invasive pat-down, now a mother on the West Coast has released photos claiming her 8-year-old son went through the same thing.

Heather Sheahan told KING-TV in Seattle that a TSA agent at the Portland airport "went up" her son Spencer's leg "into that area."  Spencer said he was "confused" by the procedure, and that he "did not know anything what they were going to do to me:"

TSA has defended the procedure on children, but did say it was willing to reevaluate.

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Jonathon M. Seidl is a former managing editor of Blaze News and a best-selling author and speaker. His next book, “Confessions of a Christian Alcoholic,” will be released on October 7, 2025.
Jonathon M. Seidl

Jonathon M. Seidl

Jonathon M. Seidl is a former managing editor of Blaze News and a best-selling author and speaker. His next book, “Confessions of a Christian Alcoholic,” will be released on October 7, 2025.

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