NSW police told 15-year-old to 'lift your balls up' in strip-search with no adult present

Inquiry told of invasive searches on teens at Lost City music festival in Sydney, where only five of 30 cases had guardian present

A 15-year-old boy was told to “hold your dick and lift your balls up and show me your gooch” and a police officer “ran his hands around” the buttocks of a 17-year-old during potentially illegal strip-searches conducted at an underage music festival in Sydney, an inquiry has heard.

On Monday the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission began public hearings into the strip-search of “several young people” at the Lost City Music festival, an under-18s event held in Sydney in February.

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