Previous American firms were sentenced to firm travelers because they used the plane’s attachments on Thursday to 18 and a half years in prison.
The sentence also includes five years of overseeing release.
Esteis Carter Thompson, 38, from Charlotte, North Carolina, admitted that he was guilty in March 2025 on charges of attempted sexual exploitation of children and the charge of possessing pornography for children depicting pre -patience.
“Mr. Thompson benefited from his position in confidence as a flight attendant to exploit innocent children, direct them to a plane bath he set up to register them, then reconsider these videos for his sexual gratification. They do this, broke a sense of five children in the news and trust around them, and left them instead for fear, and issued from improvement,“ there was an argument in the United States. “We hope that this sentence will provide at least some space for the victims and their families for recovery.”
On September 2, 2023, Thompson was working as a disease on an American flight when he tried to secure his phone to one of the toilet seats in order to record a 14 -year -old girl who entered the bathroom, according to the statement.
Officials say Thomson used a label that reads “non -surgical equipment” to meet the phone on the bottom of the toilet cover.
Then Thompson went to the bathroom when she left to recover his phone. Then the minor informed her parents of the accident, as the statement explained.
The officials said that when her father and other crew members went to Tomson, “he closed himself in the toilet with his iPhone and restored the device to the factory settings – wipes all the content from the phone.”
TED E. Docks, the private agent responsible for the Boston Department at the FBI, praised in a press release, saying: “Estis Carter Tompson believed that he had a plan without a torrent to sexually exploit children in order to satisfy him, until a 14 -year -old girl thwarted his plan, and worked with us to put an end to his deviant behavior.”
Investigators later found the same “non -practical equipment” stickers in Thomson’s luggage when landing.
The investigators who examined the Thompson iCloud account said that the evidence that he recorded underage girls, who were 6, 9, 11 and 14 at that time, while they used the bathroom on flights in 2023.
Prosecutors said that Tomson’s iCloud account also included more than 50 pictures of 9 -year -old passengers who were traveling alone, as well as “hundreds” of pictures of artificial intelligence depicting sexual assault on children.
“The actions of this flight attendant robbed five young girls from his innocence and caused great pain and shocks that these victims and their families are likely to feel for years,” Dorx said. “No sentence can compensate for this, but they know the FBI and our partners are committed to protecting the most vulnerable from predators like it.”