Reports have revealed that police in NSW have strip searched more than 100 girls

Call for strip-search laws to be tightened in Australia.

Source: AAP

NSW Police's ability to strip-search children, has been put under the microscope in NSW this year. The numbers, obtained under freedom of information laws, showed two of the 122 children were just 12 years old and eight were 13 years old



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