[asmithmd1]

I think the TSA clerks here can legitimately be charged with child molestation - follow my logic:

When I have been patted down by TSA they are always careful to ask for my consent before they sexual assault me. Since I am past the age of consent I can give it to them. Here the TSA is relying on the parents to provide the consent to sexually assault their child. I don't think a parent can legally give that consent. If I were a DA I would charge both the TSA agent and the parent with criminal child abuse.

[viro101]

Under your logic teens can't be arrested.(you get patted down(aka molested) in the process)

[lurker14]

The TSA doesn't ask for your consent, they ask for you to understand what they are going to do. They pull out a little card and say "I am required to inform you that ..."

It's obviously not sexual assault under law, since the searches are explicitly authorized by law. Even if the searches as designed were found to be unconstitutional or contradicting other law, that in no way would subject an individual agent following that law to prosecution under the government that gave the agent the orders.