LA MARQUE, Texas, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- The principal of a charter school in La Marque, Texas, said she has no regrets over having 10 students strip searched for a missing $10 bill.
Wilma Green, principal of Mainland Preparatory Academy said seven girls and three boys -- ages 11 and 12 -- were searched after a girl in study hall reported her $10 bill was missing, but no money was found, reported the WAOI-TV in San Antonio, Texas.
The students were sent in separate rooms -- boys with a male teacher and girls with a female teacher -- and told to strip to their underwear while their clothes were searched.
One parent filed a complaint with police and pulled her four children out of the school.
Police said they plan to interview the children and forward their findings to the Galveston County District Attorney's Office.
"It's not illegal," La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said. "We don't see it as a criminal offense. We want to see if anything occurred during the search that was illegal. We want to make sure everything that was done legally."
