A couple of weeks ago, a YouTube video of the patdown of a young girl by TSA officials ignited a stir over the agency's practices. Now a new YouTube video features a teary former Miss USA criticizing airport screeners, alleging they touched her genitals multiple times as part of a "full-body patdown'' after she refused to go through a body scanner.
Susie Castillo, who won the Miss USA title in 2003, said that she felt "violated'' by a female TSA agent at a security checkpoint at Dallas airport in Texas. Castillo, a Methuen native, was also a former Miss Massachusetts. She now works as an actress.