A California father is outraged after his 10-year-old daughter was forced to undergo what he called an "invasive" two-minute pat-down at the hands of a TSA agent at North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Kevin Payne, of San Diego, recorded the entire pat-down of his daughter, Vendela, on his cell phone, and shared the video online and with the media. He called it a "heinous act" that "makes me sick to my stomach," The Washington Post reported.

The pat-down started after airport security found a Capri Sun juice pouch in his daughter's bag, which is prohibited under rules about liquid in carry-on luggage. They also got a false-positive reading for explosives in the bag. A female TSA agent began meticulously patting down Vendela when a cell phone alarm went off in her bag, requiring additional checks.

"I thought it was incredibly inappropriate, very invasive and it really violated my daughter," Payne told ABC News on Wednesday.

The pat-down continued for two minutes. Payne said his daughter had a "blank stare" on her face and he could tell she was "uncomfortable."

"What was going through my mind is, 'This is annoying, I don't like this, I want to run out of the door,'" Vendela told NBC News.

TSA protocol says "officers will work with parents to resolve any alarms at the checkpoint," and children have modified screening procedures that reduce the likelihood of pat downs.

"TSA screening proceudres allow for the pat-down of a child under certain circumstances," The TSA said in a statement, noting that Payne was allowed to observe the entire pat-down. "The process by which the child was patted down followed approved procedures."

Payne thinks the rules need to be changed so that other children aren't subjected to the same uncomfortable pat-down that his daughter had to go through.

"The pat-down seemed to be the go-to option for them, and I think they could have done a better scrutiny of what they were looking for prior to putting their hands all over my 10-year-old daughter," he told NBC. "Maybe they need retraining. Maybe they did everything by the book. I don't really know, but it was an uncomfortable situation."

Payne has contacted his congressman and plans to file a formal complaint against the TSA.

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