There are many first hand accounts of elderly women and children being molested by TSA employees while muslims in headgear and nightgowns breeze right on through without even a second look.
Then charge and imprison those 'molesters'. There is no excuse for that noise, you'll get no arguement from me there. However, bear in mind that the major airport hubs get tens of thousands of people going through security every single day. We hear stories like this a handful of times over a year. You are condemning the entire TSA based upon 0.0001% or less. By and large - most of them are people who are just trying to do their job, to the best of their ability - to earn a living.
I can give you some anecdotal stories...first hand accounts...of my oldest daughter, now 21, who from the time she was 13 whenever we travelled was pulled out of line for inspection/pat down,her bags checked, etc. I didn’t think it was a big deal, and always thought she was being used to train others since of course she wasn’t a threat in any way so it was an easy training session. Especially since the last time we travelled as a family of six, two adults and four kids, the ticket agent for the airline asked who the oldest kid was, and it was my oldest who was 15/16 at the time. Then when we went through airport security, she was immediately pulled out of line (and me with her since she was a minor). Since she and I had already been through this, it wasn’t a big deal really. But she got the pat down, and thankfully the woman doing it was aware of how patting down a teenage girl was intrusive to a teenage girl, and her mother, and she was very solicitous. The entire time she was training another person and making sure I saw and understood everything while trying her best to make my daughter less anxious with it.
Four years later, my oldest went on her senior trip to Disney, and her checked luggage was searched, with a note of course. I think she’s on a list, a list for training or something. We haven’t flown as a family since Jan 2007 and I don’t know when we will again but I think when we do, she or one of my kids will be pulled out of security line for inspection.