Flight attendant gets 18.5 years after recording girls in airplane bathroom

A former American Airlines flight attendant, Estes Carter Thompson III, was sentenced to 18.5 years in prison for secretly filming young girls in an airplane lavatory using a cellphone taped to the toilet lid. His actions, which included recordings of five girls aged 7 to 14, were described by the judge as “appalling,” resulting in lost innocence and lasting trauma for the victims.

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