A second elderly woman claims she was humiliatingly strip-searched by Transportation Security Administration agents at Kennedy Airport. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.

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Ruth Sherman, 88, of Sunrise, Fla., told CBS News she felt “invaded” after screeners at the JetBlue terminal took her to a private area to check the bulge caused by her colostomy bag.

“This is private for me. It’s bad enough that I have it,” she told the station.

“I had to pull from my sweat pants and I had to pull my underwear, my underwear down.”

“You don’t do that,” Sherman added. “I felt like I was invaded.”

Sherman had spent the Thanksgiving holiday with her son, Ralph, in New York, and was flying back home on Nov. 28 when the incident happened.

“We called at night to make sure she got home all right and she was in tears and told us the story,” Ralph Sherman told the Daily News.

He said family members called JetBlue and were told the airline has nothing to do with screening and they needed to complain to the TSA, a federal agency.

“She wasn’t going to do anything about it — until she saw the story about the other woman.”

The other woman is Lenore Zimmerman, 85, of Long Beach, L.I., who had a similar experience at the same terminal one day later.

Zimmerman said she was forced to undergo a strip search by two female agents who escorted her to a private room, pulled down her pants and asked her to raise her arms.

She also says she was injured when metal bars from her walker banged against her leg, causing her to bleed.

The TSA has apologized to both women but disputes their version of events.

“TSA screening procedures are conducted in a manner designed to treat all passengers with dignity, respect and courtesy and that occurred in this instance,” TSA spokeswoman Kristin Lee told CBS News in regard to the Sherman case.

“While we regret that the passenger feels she had an unpleasant screening experience, TSA does not include strip searches as part of our security protocols, and one was not conducted in this case.”
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