A mother claims an airport official asked her to prove she was lactating when they found a ‘suspicious’ breast pump in her luggage.

 

Gayathiri Bose was flying from Singapore into Germany with a breast pump in her cabin luggage when she was stopped by security staff and questioned.

 

The 33-year-old says she was taken into a side room by a female security official and asked why she was carrying a breast pump if her baby wasn't with her.

 

 

“She asked me to open up my blouse and show her my breast,” the mum-of-two told BBC News.

 

“She then asked how come I didn’t have anything attached to my breast, if I was lactating and expressing milk.

 

“I explained there is no such thing that is [permanently] attached, we usually place the pump to our nipple and the machine does the job.

 

“She wanted me to show her by hand-expressing a little.”

 

 

Relying on a connecting flight to Paris and already having been detained an hour, Gayathiri did what the security staff asked out of fear.

 

Leaving embarrassed and in tears, the mum-of-two has now decided to take legal action.

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