A troubling discovery last September on a Boston-bound plane received an unexpected response from American Airlines in a legal filing.
The disturbing allegations involving American Airlines first came to light last fall when a 14-year-old girl went to use the bathroom on her Sept. 2 flight from Charlotte to Bostonappeared to blame a 9-year-old girl for allowing herself to be secretly recorded by a flight attendant's phone in an airplane bathroom.
In a filing this week, the airline's attorneys say the harm to the child was caused by her “own fault and negligence,” and by her “use of the compromised lavatory, which she knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.”"Instead of taking responsibility for this awful event, American Airlines is actually blaming our daughter for being filmed. How in good conscience could they even make such a suggestion? It both shocks and angers us.
Attorneys for American Airlines said in a filing that the harm to the child was caused by her “own fault and negligence.” The airline later said outside legal counsel had made an error in the filing. Follow NBC10 Boston on... Instagram: instagram.com/nbc10boston TikTok: tiktok.com/@nbc10boston Facebook: facebook.com/NBC10Boston X: twitter.
The girl told authorities that before she entered the bathroom, Thompson told her he needed to wash his hands and that the toilet seat was broken. After he left, she entered the bathroom and saw red stickers on the underside of the toilet seat lid, which was in the open position. Beneath the stickers, Thompson had allegedly concealed his iPhone to record a video. The girlto charges of sexual exploitation and possession of images of child sexual abuse in federal court in Boston.
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