Mother found guilty in airport pat-down case

By: Barry Leibowitz
Topics: Daily Blotter

In image from surveillance video, Andrea Abbott (in striped shirt), argues with security personnel at the Nashville International Airport

/ WTVF

(CBS/AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A woman who berated security officers at a Nashville airport for trying to pat down her teenage daughter, and then refused to submit to the procedure herself, has been found guilty of disorderly conduct.

It took jurors about four hours Tuesday to convict 42-year-old Andrea Abbott for the July confrontation. She was sentenced to a year's probation.

Abbott had faced up to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine, according to CBS affiliate WTVF.

Transportation Security Administration Officer Karen King testified that before the pat-down, Abbott yelled in her face that she didn't want anyone "touching her daughter's crotch."

Abbott eventually allowed her then-14-year-old daughter to undergo the pat-down, but then she refused one for herself and was arrested.

Abbott took the stand during the trial and acknowledged that she did say a few curse words but that she had a normal conversation about why she believed the pat-down was inappropriate.

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by billrighthere February 23, 2013 9:53 AM EST: Just be nice to them and they'll be nice to you. I like to thank them after i go through, they always look so surprised and say we don't hear that very much. They are doing there job for our safety...; Reply to this comment


by DigoPogo February 22, 2013 10:39 AM EST: Serves her right. She was after all, acting inappropriately. It's not like the whole pat down thing came as any surprise to her. We all know the rules of flying in America. If she was not willing to abide by them, she should not have planned to travel this way.; Reply to this comment

by waitforfIash February 22, 2013 9:46 AM EST

Send TSA to the Border!

Why can't TSA take their fancy naked scanners and surley TSA perverts down to our Southern border, and apply the security measures there? Why not? Obama keeps telling us thay can't secure the border yet they can harass, grope and fondle 49 million American air travelers each month,

Surely They Can Do The Same For Illegal Immigrants!

Once government gets you to admit surrender it will be easy to take away the rest of your rights and herd the sheeple wherever they want them. Go ahead, let the perverts abuse your rights and do anything they like with you and your family. Offer them your children, offer them your wife, maybe they will be gentle... Maybe YOU can escape while they are bending your family over.

TSA perverts are almost 100% Democrat families, friends and cronies.

Google these...
TSA orders dying woman on 'end-of-life trip' to lift shirt, bandages.
TSA Agent Accused Of Stealing $100 From Passenger's Wallet.
TSA Throws Human Ashes On Floor, Laughs At Man Picking Up Bone Fragments.
Priest Removed From Ministry on Sex Abuse Charges Now Works for TSA.
TSA Pats Down Toddler in Wheelchair!
TSA Screener Charged with Child Pornography!
TSA agent indicted on federal porn charges!
TSA agents made 3 elderly women pull down pants, underwear down!
TSA officer and wife charged with stealing from passengers' luggage!
Uniformed TSA screener busted in drug raid!
TSA Workers Steal Thousands of Dollars From Luggage!
TSA Scanners Radiation 10X Higher Than Expected!
TSA orders dying woman on 'end-of-life trip' to lift shirt, bandages...
TSA Agent Accused Of Stealing $100 From Passenger's Wallet.
TSA Throws Human Ashes On Floor, Laughs At Man Picking Up Bone Fragments.

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by mecury69 February 22, 2013 1:37 PM EST: but people who are trained to blow up building's cross the border wmdmia


by seethepositive2 February 23, 2013 1:35 PM EST: for some reason they want to abuse the law abiders. anyway...it is a good idea to move this to the southern border.


by jaygonus November 22, 2012 1:47 AM EST: This is unconscionable. Utter BS verdict. So many sheep in this country. They are being conditioned to give up their freedoms. And these balless wonders are so content in their false view of safety. You people are not Americans. GET OUT.; Reply to this comment


by LisaSimeone October 24, 2012 3:32 PM EDT: To thefuji: yeah, because in all the years of aviation before October 30, 2010, when the Reign of Molestation was implemented, planes were dropping out of the sky left and right from crotch bombs.

You people watch too many cheesy action movies.; Reply to this comment

by LisaSimeone October 24, 2012 12:00 PM EDT

caljack430, pathetic.

Th United Sheeple of America are only too happy to bend over and spread 'em whenever Uncle Sam tells them to. Andrea Abbott has more courage in her little finger than the rest of you do in your entire beings.

Talk about a police state. This country is so getting what it deserves.

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by libertyof76 October 25, 2012 4:08 PM EDT: thefuji- Well they would just detonate it! In a line full of ripe targets! The pat down does nothing but make people FEEL safer without them actually BEING safer, all the while violating people's rights.

Its sick that the jury convicted her.

by caljack430 October 24, 2012 9:38 AM EDT

I seriously do not understand why people get in such a tizzy over the TSA pat down. I would much rather them do a thorough job and make sure no one is being stupid and dangerous than have some sneaky underwear bomber sneak through and blow me to kingdom-come. No one is reaching INSIDE you, no one is groping you (at least they shouldn't be) so get over it. These policies have been in place for a solid decade now, why are you surprised and angry when you have to get a patdown at the airport? You should be very well aware of the fact that it is going to happen.

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by N965VJ October 24, 2012 3:50 PM EDT: What airport were you flying out of ten years ago where you were subjected to a Scope 'N Grope? They are the result of recent lobbying by people such as Michael Chertoff who have a financial interest in seeing the implementation of Nude-O-Scopes.

Effective security screening consists of x-ray of belongings, walk through / hand held metal detectors, and Explosive Trace Detection / Explosive Trace Portals. Nothing more, nothing less, and no exemptions for administrative convenience.