Child Q

The teenager, known as Child Q, thanked people who have supported her following the release of the report.

Child Q's family expect the new commissioner to include affected communities in designing a plan to rid the force of these diseases and to affect that plan as a priority." Child Q's family are calling on the home secretary and mayor of London to ensure that only someone willing to declare publicly the persistence of institutional racism and institutional sexism in the Met Police is appointed as the new Met commissioner. Her family strongly believe the strip search was a racist incident, and the review found her experiences are “unlikely to have been the same” had she not been black. "The main thing I need is space and time to understand what has happened to me and exactly how I feel about it and getting past this exam season. The girl - known as Child Q - is now taking civil action against the Met and her school and hundreds of people gathered at Stoke Newington Police Station in north-east London on Friday to demand justice for her. The Metropolitan Police and a Hackney school have faced public outcry after it emerged that a 15-year-old Black girl had been strip-searched while she was on her period after being wrongly accused of possessing cannabis.

A BLACK schoolgirl has launched legal action against the Metropolitan Police and her school after she was strip-searched by officers while on her peri.

"It is truly regrettable and on behalf of the Met Police I would like to apologise to the child concerned, her family and the wider community." The report concluded the strip search should never have happened, was unjustified and racism "was likely to have been an influencing factor". According to the report, the impact on the school pupil was "profound" and the repercussions "obvious and ongoing".

A 15-year-old girl, known as Child Q, was "taken away from the people who were supposed to protect me and stripped naked" when Met Police cops carried out a ...

Child Q's family expect the new commissioner to include affected communities in designing a plan to rid the force of these diseases and to affect that plan as a priority." As the government sets guidance for schools, we strongly urge it to learn from the failings in this case." Her family strongly believe the strip search was a racist incident, and the review found her experiences are “unlikely to have been the same” had she not been black. Her mother said the family want the officers involved to be “individually held to account and face real consequences for what they have done” following an an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation. Her treatment has caused widespread backlash from politicians, campaigners, and members of the public since the report was revealed. Child Q was taken to a medical room and strip-searched by two female officers while teachers remained outside.

“Child Q” is a designated name for a child who was mistreated by the Police. Child Q, a 15-year-old school girl was wrongly suspected to be possessing ...

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The report is a disturbing read, an indictment of both the Metropolitan police and teachers at a secondary school in Hackney, east London. The teachers called ...

Is this because they think she is a young girl, with no respect for her parents or adults and no fear of consequences or because she is a black child living in a poor city area?” The sad thing is that, as a writer, often the most difficult thing is getting readers to engage with these stories of black and brown people, having to persuade them that we are human in the first place. Child Q is a rare case: the public has recognised her humanity in retrospect. She described how in one case a “woman made the important point that even as a girl she had the physical appearance of a mature woman, and she was dealt with as such. What Kennedy witnessed and what we saw happen to Sarah Reed, and to so many others, is about how black people are seen in this country. Suddenly he pulls her by hair and slams her to the ground, punching her, pinning her to the ground with his knees.

A 15-year-old girl who was wrongly accused of carrying cannabis, was pulled out of an exam to be strip searched in December 2020. The incident has…

The teenager, known as Child Q, was subjected to the search by two female Metropolitan Police officers after being falsely accused of cannabis possession at ...

While on her period, ‘Child Q’ was falsely accused of having narcotics and subjected to a humiliating search. Child Q was dragged from an exam and stripped and searched by female police officers from the Metropolitan Police Service. Child Q is the name given to the schoolgirl who was strip-searched by the police and was falsely accused of having drugs with her.

A crowd marched through central London on Saturday to protest against the 'barbaric' treatment of the teenager.

“She is all of our children. A crowd marched on Whitehall on Saturday demanding an end to racial discrimination following the publication of the report in March. emonstrators took to the streets in central London to protest against racism after a report revealed a black schoolgirl had been strip searched on her period.

Child Q's story has sparked widespread outrage and a planned protest is now due to take place at Stoke Newington Police Station at 4pm, organised by Hackney Cop ...

In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. protest will take place in Hackney today over the treatment of a black 15-year-old schoolgirl who was strip-searched by police while she was on her period.