Police arrested an American Airlines flight attendant on Thursday on suspicion of trying to secretly record a 14-year-old female passenger using a bathroom aboard an airplane he was working on last September.
Police also allege Estes Carter Thompson III, 37, of Charlotte, North Carolina, had recordings of four other minor female passengers using lavatories on an aircraft he had worked on previously.
Thompson was charged with attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of child sexual abuse images depicting a prepubescent minor.
He was arrested in Lynchburg, Virginia, and will remain in custody pending his initial court appearance in Virginia. He will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date, officials said.
I’ve seen this photo a couple of times now, I still can’t wrap my head around the light being on. Was this the actual photo she took? How did he think this was going to work?
I’m wondering if that’s infrared to support the camera, and you can only see it because she’s also taking a picture with a phone that uses infrared.