DILLWYN, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Friday that he has suspended a policy that allowed prison officials to strip search an 8-year-old girl who was visiting her father.

The Virginian-Pilot previously reported that prison officials had breached protocol when they strip-searched the girl before allowing her to visit her father. The father’s girlfriend accompanied the child to Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn just before Thanksgiving,

Diamond Peerman says she and the girl were circled by a Virginia Department of Corrections dog trained to sniff out contraband. Peerman was singled out by the dog and told by prison officials that both she and the girl had to be searched. Peerman says both she and the girl removed all their clothes and were searched, and that they were then allowed a visit, but only through glass.

Peerman says she told guards she wasn’t the 8-year-old’s legal guardian and that they told her she had to sign the consent form anyway.