A black schoolgirl who was stripped naked and searched by Metropolitan Police officers says she fears 'not feeling normal again'.
A report released this month says the officers were 'influenced by racism.'
Scotland Yard has since apologised and said the incident "should never have happened".
The teen - who remains anonymous - was strip-searched by officers at a school in Hackney, with no adult present.
The female officers made her remove her sanitary towel, despite knowing she was on her period, and no drugs were found.
Describing the ordeal, the 15-year-old said: "Someone walked into the school, where I was supposed to feel safe, took me away from the people who were supposed to protect me and stripped me naked, while on my period."
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She added: "On the top of preparing for the most important exams of my life. I can't go a single day without wanting to scream, shout, cry or just give up.”
“I feel like I'm locked in a box, and no one can see or care that I just want to go back to feeling safe again, my box is collapsing around me, and no one wants to help.”
“I don’t know if I’m going to feel normal again. I don’t know how long it will take to repair my box. But I do know this can't happen to anyone, ever again.”
“All the people that allowed this to happen need to be held responsible. I was held responsible for a smell.”
The Local Child Safeguarding Practice Review, published this month, was carried by City and Hackney Safeguarding Children Partnership, after the incident in 2020.
It concluded that the search should never have happened and racism "was likely to have been an influencing factor".
Det Supt Dan Rutland, of the Met's Central East Command, said: "We recognise that the findings of the safeguarding review reflect this incident should never have happened."
