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Off-Duty NWA Worker Charged With Ejaculating on Passenger
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by jordan | March 6, 2007 at 09:48 am
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Warning: The following article is grody to the max.
A woman was allegedly sexually assaulted mid-flight by an off-duty airline employee. They were separated upon the victim's complaint to the on-duty staff; I personally feel that the perp should have been forced to sit in one of those seats by the back toilets, the ones that don't recline, rather than getting to sit near the front of the plane.
There's a "Snakes on a Plane" crack just waiting to be brought to bear
here, but I will take the high ground. For now. In the meantime, you may find a copy of the FBI affidavit on the incident here.
An off-duty Northwest Airlines employee was arrested after a woman on a flight from Seattle complained that the man had ejaculated on her.The FBI identified the man as Samuel Oscar Gonzalez, 20, of Lakewood, Wash. He was charged in federal court with simple assault, a misdemeanor.
It happened on the redeye Monday morning from Seattle to Minneapolis. The woman was headed back to college.
Near the end of the flight, the FBI said Gonzalez sat next to the woman as she was trying to sleep. He touched her, which she described as spooning, lifted her shirt and then got up and left. Court documents said she felt a warm fluid on her back, clothes and seat after he walked away. She told the officers he had ejaculated on her.
The woman told the flight attendants about the incident. They moved her to another seat and called police from the air. The crew also moved the man to a seat near the front of the plane until the end of the flight.
These days we all feel a bit used when we fly on the major airlines, but this is just getting silly...
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at 10:01 on March 6th, 2007
Grody is not the right word for it.
How about sexual assault? The FBI investigator believes the incident is covered by Title 18 of the US Criminal Code, section 113:
§ 113. Assaults within maritime and territorial jurisdiction
(a)
Whoever, within the special maritime and
territorial jurisdiction of the United States, is guilty of an assault
shall be punished as follows:
(1)
Assault with intent to commit murder, by imprisonment for not more than twenty years.
(2)
Assault with intent to commit any felony, except
murder or a felony under chapter 109A, by a fine under this title or
imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both.
(3)
Assault with a dangerous weapon, with intent to
do bodily harm, and without just cause or excuse, by a fine under this
title or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both.
(4)
Assault by striking, beating, or wounding, by a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both.
(5)
Simple assault, by a fine under this title or
imprisonment for not more than six months, or both, or if the victim of
the assault is an individual who has not attained the age of 16 years,
by fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 1 year, or
both.
(6)
Assault resulting in serious bodily injury, by a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both.
(7)
Assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to
an individual who has not attained the age of 16 years, by fine under
this title or imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or both.
at 12:52 on March 6th, 2007
This woman's reaction seemed very odd to me. I'm NOT taking the "she asked for rape by wearing a short skirt" defense here, but... if a strange guy came over to the seat next to me and spooned me and lifted my shirt, I'm certain that I would at the very least move far, far away. My first reaction might even be to deliver an elbow that could quite possibly endanger this guy's chances of reproduction.
I'm not AT ALL saying this girl deserved to be... "coated" with Gonzalez' obviously skewed commitment to customer service. I do, however, believe that if the FBI investigator doesn't get the sexual assault charge, it could well be attributed to her reaction - LACK of reaction. Instead of quietly speaking through her boyfriend, in my opinion, this girl needs to express some outrage and demand some results!
Yes, if she came out publicly (bad choice of words I guess), there would be people like me who say, "Why didn't you move," but it doesn't change the fact that she was most definitely assaulted. I'm afraid this guy will get off (OK, that time I did it on purpose) because yet another victim of sexual assault feels misplaced shame.
at 09:42 on March 8th, 2007
"grody to the max"?
not hard to tell what decade you grew up in, but that is a pretty apt description of how disgusting this is