Posted on 05/22/2024 12:20:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
American Airlines is being criticized for its legal team’s response to a civil lawsuit against the company and one of its flight attendants, who is accused of secretly recording five girls in airplane bathrooms.
American Airlines is blaming a 9-year-old girl for being filmed by one of their flight attendants in the plane’s bathroom.
Estes Carter Thompson is accused of recording multiple girls by taping his phone to plane toilet seats.
In a new court filing, American Airlines says the young girl should have known that there was a recording device on the toilet.
“Defendant would show that any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s own fault and negligence,” AA said.
“She knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.”
Thompson is accused of having videos of girls aged 7, 9, 11 and 14.
Federal prosecutors said that on Sept. 2, 2023, Thompson video-recorded or attempted to surreptitiously video-record a 14-year-old female passenger with a cellphone as she used the aircraft lavatory while he was working as a flight attendant onboard American Airlines Flight 1441 from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Boston Logan International Airport.
As a result of an investigation into that incident, prosecutors said videos of four additional girls using aircraft lavatories were found on Thompson’s iCloud account that were recorded between January 2023 and August 2023. Authorities said those four girls were 7, 9, 11 and 14 years old.
Video:
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In a statement, the 9-year-old girl’s mother said, “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. American Airlines has no shame.”
The parents of the 14-year-old girl on that Boston-bound flight also reacted to American’s legal response, saying, “This callous legal position shocks us. Our hearts go out to the Texas family.”
In a statement shared with NewsCenter 5 on Sept. 2, 2023, American Airlines said it was taking the incident that happened on Flight 1441 from Charlotte to Boston very seriously. But so far, the families of the girls who were allegedly recorded by Thompson said the airline has not apologized for the incidents or contacted them.
SOP in personal injury litigation. Insurance appointed defense counsel always assert an affirmative defense that alleges the plaintiff is responsible for their own injuries in whole or in part. I would not read too much into this.
The airline has lawyered up.
IANAL.
But, I find it difficult to cast “girls aged 7, 9, 11 and 14”
as experienced enough to “know better”.
But bigger picture, even if they “should have known” that is irrelevant. They are under age and can not legally consent.
There are more reasons every day to just not fly. I feel sorry for people who need to use airlines.
I would. No matter how you slice it, American is blaming a 9 year old for not being savvy enough to figure out the scam of the Airline employee pervert.
I’ve never flown, or know how toilets on an airplane work. Depending on the lighting in the room, I might not have known what that was.
What a sicko!
“I’ve never flown, or know how toilets on an airplane work.”
They’re just holes in the floor, that’s all. **it flies!
Isn't American Airlines a WOKE sicko bunch? Or is that a different airline?
Yep. Not that it’s “right” or not disgusting, but that’s boiler plate legalease.
Maybe Merchan can arrest the nine year olds and have them 'interrogated by liberal goons and thugs'. Or maybe allow President Sniffer can have ice cream with them?
Judge Juan Merchan knows what side gets the favors and what side get the sticks... AND we know what side Merchan is on - and it sure isn't on the side a legal system where justice is blind.
Like I said, SOP in PI lawsuits.
The perpetrator in this case just looks shady to me. American and he will lose. Surely? Too bad for American though but they have the deepest pockets.
Yeah right, except blaming a nine year old girl for negligence flunks the smell test big time.
We didn’t refer to AA as the Sky Nazis for nothing.
They are a vicious airline.
Lawyers and what the teach them as ethics are evil people
Will never forget the lawyer for a child rapist stating that his client was facing cruel and unusual punishment for his jail time because he had aids and would die in prison.
Nevermind the fact his victim a 4 year old girl whom he was babysitting and he raped giving her aids of which she had died of.
To the legal system this is considered completely “ethical” behavior..
The perp looks exactly like the serial child rapist/killer (played by Jason Gedrick) in season one of Bosch:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001263/
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