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Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
Former priest hired by TSA to pat down passengers, three months after church kicked him out for ‘molesting young girls’
By Daily Mail Reporter
First he was fired for allegedly groping young girls, then hired to frisk them at an airport.
A disgraced former priest, defrocked from his New Jersey diocese over allegations of molestation in 2002, was three months later given a job as a TSA officer, it has been revealed.
Thomas Harkins was employed in a role where his duties would include doing pat downs on children, according to local news, after the agency failed to do a thorough background check and offered him a position at Philadelphia International Airport.
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