If the 14-year-old girl is not sensitive to detecting abnormalities, there will likely be many more victims.
Mothership newspaper reported that on January 18, a flight attendant named Estes Carter Thompson III, 37 years old, of American Airlines was arrested for allegedly trying to secretly film a 14-year-old passenger by taping his iPhone. We go to the toilet on the plane.
The incident happened in September 2023, but this male flight attendant was only recently arrested.
His phone also stored footage of four female passengers, all in their teens, using the restroom. They were recorded from the plane of the airline he previously worked for.
Male flight attendant named Estes Carter Thompson III, 37 years old.
The US Attorney’s Office in Boston said in a statement that Thompson was charged with attempted sexual exploitation of a minor.
What happened?
This male flight attendant’s secret filming plan seems to have been carefully calculated, making it easy for the “prey” to fall into the trap without even realizing it.
Take the victim to the bathroom
When the incident happened, Thompson was working as a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight traveling from North Carolina to Massachusetts (USA).
About midway through the flight, the victim got up to use the main cabin’s restroom near where she was sitting.
The girl waited outside the restroom because it was occupied. While the victim was waiting, Thompson allegedly approached the girl and told her that the first class restroom was empty.
He escorted her to the first class restroom. Before the victim entered, Thompson allegedly told the girl that he needed to wash his hands and that the toilet seat was broken. He then quickly walked into the bathroom.
The phone is taped to the toilet seat
When it was the victim’s turn to use the restroom, she noticed a strange-looking red sticker underneath the toilet lid.
The red sticker notes that the toilet seat is “no longer usable food service equipment”. The words “broken chair” were also handwritten in black pen.
Photo of the toilet seat taken by the victim.
Thompson allegedly placed his iPhone upside down behind the red stickers, with the camera facing out from underneath. The victim used his phone to take pictures of the scene before leaving the bathroom.
Thompson waited for the girl outside and went back to the bathroom immediately. When the victim returned to her seat, she informed her parents about what she saw and showed them the photo as evidence.
Found incriminating evidence on iCloud
The victim’s parents reported the incident to other flight attendants on the flight, who informed the captain. The captain immediately notified law enforcement on the ground.
The victim’s father could not control his emotions and decided to confront Thompson, but he hid by locking himself in the bathroom with his iPhone.
When law enforcement officials met Thompson at the airport, they found that his iPhone had been restored to factory settings.
However, subsequent searches of Thompson’s suitcases revealed that he was carrying 11 “non-functioning food service equipment”; stickers similar to those the victim discovered on the back of the toilet seat.
Thompson’s iCloud account also contained evidence that he filmed four other minors (ages 7, 9, 11, and 14) using the airplane restroom.
Additionally, more than 50 images of a 9-year-old minor, including close-up photos of her face taken while she slept, were found in his iCloud.
Hundreds of AI-generated child pornography images were also found stored in this guy’s iCloud account.
Fired
According to the Associated Press, after the incident, American Airlines issued a statement saying they were very concerned about the allegations and said Thompson was “forced to resign immediately following the incident that occurred last month.” September 2023″.
“His actions do not reflect our airline as a whole or our core mission of customer care. We have cooperated closely with law enforcement on the investigation Because nothing is more important than the safety and security of customers,” the company representative declared.
