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'I Still Feel Traumatized!' Disabled Girl Detained By TSA Speaks Out

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Source: WENN

Dec. 16 2012, Published 6:41 a.m. ET

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By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

The 12-year-old girl filmed crying after TSA agents at a Texas airport detained her, claiming she tested positive for explosive residue on her hands, tells Breaking Celebrity News exclusively that she is still “traumatized” a week after the incident.

In an exclusive interview with Breaking Celebrity News, Shelbi Walser says she is still in shock by the event that caused a public outcry when video footage of her red-faced and in tears was released.

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“I feel like traumatized, but I’m getting better,” she tells us.

“I didn’t know what was going to happen and what the they were going to do to me. I thought they might take me away.

“When they said I tested positive for explosive residue on my hands I didn’t say anything. I was just in shock.”

Shelbi was flying to Florida from Dallas-Fort Worth International airport with her mom Tammy Daniels when the incident took place on December 8. The little girl makes the trip at least twice a year to receive treatment for brittle bone disease, which has left her wheelchair-bound.

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“It’s going to make me a little nervous because I don’t know if I’m going to test positive again,” she says about flying in the future. “I’m going to have to wash my hands before I go through se