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TSA Hires Priest Accused of Molesting Girls, Lets Him Do Pat Downs on Kids
You would expect that the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) would do good background checks on its prospective employees. But this doesn’t appear to be the case, after it was determined that the organization hired a priest who’d been defrocked for allegedly molesting two girls in grade school.
The shamed former man of God was given the responsibility of patting people down at the airport in Philadelphia, including young children. The Philadelphia Inequirer reported that 65-year old Thomas Harkins was pushed out of the priesthood as a result of the allegations. We’re not sure why he didn’t go to jail instead, but the priesthood has been long criticized for not seeking criminal penalties for priests, even when they’ve been accused of harming children.
