UNBELIEVABLE: 3 - Caught on Camera

Child Q: Black professionals urge education secretary to take action following strip-search

Exclusive: In a letter to Nadhim Zahawi and the home secretary Priti Patel, seen by The Independent, dozens of signatories expressed their outrage at the incident

The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2022

Emily Sheffield: A schoolgirl subjected to a humiliating strip search tells us a lot about the Met

When the public first became aware of Child Q, the outrage was widespread and immediate. Who could not have felt shame and revulsion at what happened to this schoolgirl? I need to warn readers that the description that follows could distress you, especially if you’ve had a similar experience. Child…

Evening Standard · Mar 25, 2022

Two Met officers who strip-searched school girl removed from frontline duties

Police commander also admits Met has problem with officers treating inner London children as ‘adults’

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2022

Child Q protesters gather in Manchester city centre to call for no police in schools

"I feel so much pain for that child and that community"

Manchester Evening News · Mar 18, 2022

Child Q: Police booed and prevented from speaking at protest in Hackney over strip-search of schoolgirl

Senior police officers were booed and told to resign by angry protesters gathering in support of a black 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a “ traumatic” strip-search at her school.

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2022

Child Q: Black teenager launches legal action against Met Police after strip search

The case has sparked outrage from politicians, campaigners and members of the wider public

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2022

Schoolgirl says public support after strip-search ordeal ‘shows I am not alone’

The 15-year-old, also known as Child Q, is taking civil action against the Metropolitan Police and her school.

The Independent UK · Mar 18, 2022

Child Q: Protests planned in Hackney after schoolgirl was strip-searched by police

The black 15-year-old girl was strip-searched while she was on her period after she was accused of cannabis possession

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2022

Child Q’s trauma shames her school and the police

Letters: The appalling strip search of a 15-year-old girl at a London school is evidence of the racism ingrained in our institutions, writes Sarah Hughes of the Centre for Mental Health. Plus letters from Sue Evans and Dr Michael Peel

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2022

Amber Gill calls for mass sackings after black schoolgirl strip searched by police

The 15-year-old girl, known only as Child Q, was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis, and subjected to the horrifying strip search by police officers - without another adult present - while she was on her period

Daily Mirror · Mar 17, 2022