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Government social workers subjected a 3-year-old boy to a forced catheterization after he was unable to provide them with a urine sample on demand because the boy’s mother’s boyfriend failed a urine analysis for drugs. Angel Dobbs and her 24-year-old niece, Ashley, were pulled over by a Texas state trooper for allegedly flicking cigarette butts out of the car window. Insisting that he smelled marijuana, then called in a female trooper, who carried out a roadside cavity search, sticking her fingers into the older woman’s anus and vagina, then performing same procedure on the younger woman, wearing the same pair of gloves. No marijuana was found. Leila Tarantino subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view of passing traffic during a routine traffic stop, while her two children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car, a female officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from Tarantino. Nothing illegal was found. David Eckert was forced to undergo an anal cavity search, three enemas, and a colonoscopy after allegedly failing to yield to a stop sign at a Wal-Mart parking lot. No drugs were found.