A airplane passenger within the US has been sentenced to 6 months in jail after groping a flight attendant.
Enio Socorro Zayas, a 50-year-old man from Canada, was on an American Airways flight from Cancun, Mexico to Miami, Florida final 12 months when the assault happened, reviews International Information.
The feminine member of cabin crew, who was serving passengers drinks and snacks, stated she thought Zayas was asleep and left a snack packet on his lap, in response to the legal criticism.
She claimed that Zayas reached round and grabbed the again of her thigh earlier than transferring his hand as much as her buttocks.
The flight attendant reported the incident when the airplane touched down within the US, with a number of passengers who noticed the interplay backing her up.
Zayas plead responsible to assault in October 2021 and was sentenced in Miami federal court docket on 24 January 2022.
It’s the most recent in a string of incidents wherein male passengers have touched feminine cabin crew ands fellow travellers with out their consent.
On 24 December, a lady was flying from Las Vegas to Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport when she alleges that she awakened mid-flight to seek out the passenger subsequent to her fondling her breast.
Prosecutors say that when the lady shouted “get away from me”, the male passenger acquired up and went to the again of the airplane, the place he instructed a flight attendant he “sexually assaulted the lady sitting subsequent to him.”
“The indictment alleges that she awoke to Lopez repeatedly rubbing her proper breast. When the passenger opened her eyes, she allegedly noticed Lopez leaning over her and his proper hand was positioned on her proper breast,” officers stated in an announcement.
In the meantime, in August 2021 a person was taped to his seat and arrested after authorities say he groped feminine flight attendants and punched a male crew member.
Maxwell Berry, 22, from Norwalk, Ohio had two drinks on the airplane and used his empty cup to the touch the bottom of a feminine crew member, who stated “don’t contact me”, in response to the legal criticism written by the arresting officers.
He later groped the chest of one other flight attendant and punched a male member of cabin crew within the face.
Berry was arrested after the Frontier Airways flight from Philadelphia landed in Miami.
