American Airlines Flight Attendant Arrested For Allegedly Filming Minor Girls In Plane Restrooms
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The 36-year-old was arrested Thursday by the FBI and charged with sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor.
An American Airlines flight attendant accused of recording multiple young girls in airplane bathrooms was arrested on Thursday by federal agents in Virginia. According to the New York Post, 36-year-old Estes Carter Thompson III was caught red-handed in September last year by a 14-year-old girl he attempted to secretly film in a plane restroom. The girl discovered the iPhone affixed to a toilet seat, with a large sticker that said the seat was broken to partially conceal the device.
The 36-year-old was arrested Thursday by the FBI and charged with sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor. According to the Post, prosecutors said investigators also discovered videos of four other girls, ages 7, 9, 11 and 14, using the facilities on planes where Thompson worked.
The flight attendant was working aboard an American Airlines flight from Charlotte, North Carolina to Boston, Massachusetts on September 2, 2023, when he tried to film the 14-year-old girl in the restroom. He approached the girl while she waited for an occupied bathroom in the main cabin and escorted her to an unoccupied first-class bathroom, according to Fox59. Before the girl went in, Thompson allegedly told her that he needed to wash his hands and that the toilet seat was broken before he briefly entered the bathroom.
