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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly was the assault? There are such varying degrees and it makes a difference is he touched the girls leg vs raped her during the flight.[/quote]

[b]He allegedly put his hand on her back (under her shirt)[/b] while the girl had her head in her mother's lap (the girl was having a panic attack). The man then touched the mother's leg and thigh. They apparently then told the flight attendants about the assault, but the flight attendants said that there was nothing they could do.

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I am NOT blaming the mother but only commenting on what I would hope I would do if in a similar horrendous situation: I am as non-confrontational as them come but if anyone - anyone - ever touches my child inappropriately I would [u]completely [/u]go off on them. I'd start screaming as loud as I could and pointing at the person and if no one came to help immediately I'd literally start throwing things (a flight magazine, a blanket, whatever I could get my hands on) to get people's attention to the situation.

No one ever will touch my children inappropriately in my presence. [/quote]

I’m a pretty passive, non-confrontational and very petite person and I think I’d go ballistic if someone inappropriately touched my son in such an obvious way. I’d be grabbing and twisting his arm away, pulling his hair, whatever to address the threat. I hope I’d be screaming and yelling, too. [/quote]

+1
I may freeze in disbelief if someone touched me but if I saw someone assaulting my child I'd become enraged to the point where I would worry I'd become physical[/quote]

That’s not so prudent with a drunk unknown man who could easily go postal and stab your child with a pen.  No one recommends attacking sexual predators.  You need to get away (hard to do on a plane admittedly.) and if all else fails videotape the behavior (because lord knows the unenlightened half of DCUM/America won’t believe the victim unless they see it videotaped.) [/quote]

I understand what you are saying but, no. If someone is assaulting my kid I am not going to sit there video taping it. 
I am going to defend my kid at all costs. I will not add to my child's trauma by sitting there and not defending them physically if necessary.[/quote]

Agree. If all else fails I'll be stabbing the attacker with a pen not meekly holding up my phone and asking him to please stop, patiently and kindly.[/quote]

Come on. You aren’t doing this. That’s why this guy got away with it. Because he knows people won’t do this. Fantasizing about what you dream would happen versus reality doesn’t help the conversation at all. [/quote]

Try it and find out. [/quote]

Okay tough guy. 🙄[/quote]

DP here. You are mistaken. What I also don’t get is why mom didn’t at minimum switch seats with daughter so mom was next to the pervert. [/quote]

I am having a hard time with this story and that the Mother did not remove her daughter from sitting next to this man at the very very very bare minimum just does not sound right at all. Something is not right here.[/quote]

Yep.[/quote]

+2 
If there really was this much loudness and harassment going on, certainly someone nearby would’ve quick started recording.

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+3. The whole story doesn’t pass the sniff test.[/quote]
Flights from JFK to Athens depart at 3PM and 8PM and arrive in the early morning or early afternoon. That means for at least half the flight the cabin lights are dimmed and everyone tries to get some sleep. Assuming they were in the 3PM flight, that’d give the guy plenty of time to get sauced up by the dinner service, and then it’s lights out until breakfast. [/quote]

And most people now wear noise cancelling headphones and eye shades for red eyes so all the people saying “people would have noticed” are full of it.  I read the story that he was verbally harassing her for a while but the physical harassment was just at the very end and some nice guy traded seats with her fairly soon after that.  So the mom must have escalated things quickly after the inappropriate touching.  But it should not have got to that point.  I’m not a teetotaler but I think it’s ridiculous that anyone gets more than 3 drinks on a flight.  And if they seem drunk, the number should be zero.[/quote]

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