[Sopater]

There is a poll on the website asking if you think it's safe for children to fly by themselves.

Results as of 7:46AM Central Time:

Yes 25.75% 1259 No 74.25% 3630

[Perdogg]

Cha-ching cha-ching cha-ching.

[shadeaud]

Was the person on the adjacent seat asleep during this alleged incident. I need to have more info on this before I leave my highly regarded opinion

[tsmith130]

She just sat there and let it happen? I suppose that’s possible but something doesn’t sound right.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

a man slipped into the empty seat beside her . . . .on a crowded Delta jet.

I am finding dissonance in the story already. Crowded? Empty Seat? Flight Attendants walking through the isles. People in fron and in back of her. She says nothing, does nothing, can't identify the passenger but they are sueing the airline?

I would love to give her the but if it looks like a duck and is quacking well . . .

[glide625]

Any parent who would allow a female child to fly alone and unattended should be prosecuted for child abuse.

[dbacks]

What a splendiferous COS! This is extortion by lawsuit. What PROOF, other than an 11YO’s word and her $$mother$$ do they have?

[SampleMan]

I’d never send my pre-teen on a flight alone. Forgetting this article, there are too many possibilities of them not getting to their destination and ending up in a strange city with no one but a stranger to look out for them.

[MEGoody]

So. . .the attendant didn't check on this child? No one in any of the seats around the girl was unself-absorbed enough to notice anything out of the ordinary?

What a world.

[Freeport]

Look folks, I’m a divorced father of two and the only way I could see my kids was to fly them to where I was.

I never used Delta because of other issues, but if this turns out to be true, why wasn’t a flight attendant with the child?

On other airlines with unescorted minors, they are placed in a segregated row; no adults allowed.

Those are the airlines I used to use.

[freekitty]

When I was 14 years old, flying alone(can’t remember whether it was AA or Delta)and a man tried to get me to get off the plane with him in New Orleans. We were headed for Atlanta.

That was a long, long time ago. As you can see I did not go. My parents were absolutely livid with anger. I am not sure what they told the airlines; but it never happened again.

[GoShow]

Flying (Conair) aint what it used to be...

[meanie monster]

My son, now 18 has flown to Orlando alone since he was 14. We had to pay an extra fee to have him escorted by flight attendants. There is no excuse for this. When he arrives to his destination they check the ID’s of his his grammie and pappie. They were very strict about it. This is SouthWest btw.

[Scythian]

There is a poll on the website asking if you think it's safe for children to fly by themselves.

HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE, OBVIOUSLY, THIS GIRL BEING MOLESTED MEANS IT'S NOT SAFE, IT SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT HOW MANY PREDITOR'S THERE ARE, THEY ARE EVERYWHERE. HOW COULD THOSE IDIOTS VOTE YES, IT'S SAFE?

[popdonnelly]

This is an awful thing to happen to the child, but how is Delta supposed to stop perverts from flying?

[NYFriend]

First off, it’s not SAFE to do much of anything. It’s dangerous to fly, more dangerous to drive, and dangerous to send your kids to school. Even having kids is dangerous (the the mother). Nothing is SAFE. I believe it is SAFE ENOUGH to let an 11 year old kid fly alone. Air travel is very safe, both in terms to transportation accidents, and the danger of abduction or assault, because there are lots of people around whose job it is to keep it safe (including flight attendants). To the extent that this story is accurate, it is highly unusual, which is why it make the news. For every child or woman this has happened to, hundreds have flown safely. All of this can be reduced to a game of odds, risk, and severity of injury.

There are things people can do to reduce their chance of harm. If you wear a seat belt on a plan, you greatly reduce your risk of in flight injury. If you yell when a stranger touches you in appropriately on a plane, you greatly reduce the risk you will be sexually assaulted.

I’m in no way blaming the victim, but when I was a kid, I was told to yell for help and run away if I was in danger. There must have been at least three or more flight attendants on that plan, and plenty of passengers who would have come to this girls rescue if she yelled for help.

[napscoordinator]

Hey I just traveled on a plane Wednesday. Maybe I need to get in on this quick money making scheme. Mother and Daughter needed a way for future college finances and seems to have found the way.

[spectre]

"Although the girl reported the incident to her mother when she got off the plane, Tate said no criminal charges have been filed and no suspect identified. The mother took the report to Huntsville police, Atlanta police and eventually the FBI.

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[Shots]

I think this may be a set up but not sure. It has the hint of separated parents Marine father in SD on leave yet the father and girl visit alone in SD? Does not compute. Also why in the hell didn’t the girl yell or shout???

[Jabba the Nutt]

I'm not going to rush to judgment on this story, it sounds too fishy. A molester attacks a girl with 100+ people in close proximity? People sitting across the aisle could see what was happening.

Let's say this attack happened, why wasn't this girl taught to stand up for herself and defend herself?

[kenth]

Why in the world was an eleven year old flying alone?