USA: Flight Attendant Arrested For Secret Recording

Man Travelling On Flight Robbed

Estes Carter Thompson, an American Airlines flight attendant, was arrested by federal agents in Virginia for allegedly recording multiple young girls in airplane bathrooms.

The 36-year-old was caught in September by a 14-year-old girl who discovered an iPhone affixed to a toilet seat with a sticker to partially conceal it.

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Thompson is charged with sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor. Videos of four other girls, ages 7, 9, 11, and 14, were reportedly found on his devices. The incidents occurred on flights where Thompson worked as a flight attendant.

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