A teenage girl and her parents are suing American Airlines, saying that a flight attendant secretly filmed her using an airplane toilet.
  • GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee
    123·
    1 year ago

    Lawyers for the 14-year-old and her parents say that American “knew or should have known the flight attendant was a danger.” They say the failure of other crew members to confiscate the employee’s phone allowed him to destroy evidence.

    Well that’s pretty damning. Makes me wonder how many other times this flight attendant has done this.

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        Ummmm Was that an employee’s phone taped to the toilet seat? Criminals being unbelievably bad at crime is not a defense. The FBI can’t arrest somebody without evidence, but nobody is claiming that they didn’t tape a phone to a toilet seat.

      • MNByChoice@midwest.social
        13·
        1 year ago

        Seems to be a civil lawsuit, so the standards are different. The investigation is also ongoing. Obtaining the photos is unlikely the only crime. Attempting to obtain the photos is also likely a crime. The FBI agent is not the judge of what is our is not illegal.

        The flight attendant was not identified. They are not getting paid, but that is fully different than being punished for a crime (still has a negative impact on them.)

  • Stuka@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 year ago

    How exactly is one supposed to just know someone’s a criminal? And what do they think the flight attendants job description is?

    Throw the guy in jail, terrible it happened. But I dont see how they’re gonna get anywhere in that lawsuit

      • RippleEffect@lemm.eeEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        Innocent until proven guilty only applies in the courts. For everywhere else, it seems to be guilty until proven innocent, and sometimes still guilty despite proof.

      • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        The whole point of the lawsuit is that they couldn’t find evidence because the other flight attendants gave him his phone back after he’d been caught. They’re suing because he committed an obvious offense against a minor, and the employees didn’t take the accusation seriously enough not to let evidence get destroyed.

        The criminal case may be a lost cause now, but the evidence we do have is pretty damning and does warrant a lawsuit against the company that enabled what happened.