According to media reports:
"Travellers under 18 will be exempt from Canada's peek-a-boo body scanners amid international fears that the resulting images would amount to child pornography."
Perhaps this shows, as well as anything, the "theatre" that is being put on for the public.
Ignoring the very real opportunity to conceal items in childrens' clothing (say in a diaper), there have been many examples of children used as suicide bombers (to my mind the children had little to do with the matter and I use the term "suicide" with caution).
Thus:
"Sri Lanka Army sources said that the LTTE had sent a child suicide bomber to attack the Army 55 Division frontline yesterday (Feb 4, 2009). According to the sources, the child suicide bomber possibly between 13-16 years of age had exploded himself around 8.30 PM after reaching the soldiers in guise of a civilian seeking refuge with them. "
Now, granted, there is no corroboration for this Sri Lankan report, but other reports from South Waziristan report training of children as young as seven years old to be suicide bombers. More generally see for examples of children being made bombers in the middle east:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_suicide_bomber
The point is that not scanning minors is preposterous if there is any real purpose beyond show to the scans.
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