American Airlines attendant Estes Carter Thompson III (left) has been indicted after allegedly fliming girls using airplane restrooms (Pictures: AP)
A flight attendant accused of taping an iPhone to an airplane toilet seat and recording a teenage girl allegedly also filmed four other underaged females.
American Airlines attendant Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, was arrested after allegedly recording a 14-year-old girl using the restroom on flight 1441 from Charlotte to Boston in September. The teen noticed the phone taped to the toilet lid with stickers and ‘seat broken’ written across them and told her parents.
It has since emerged that Thompson allegedly had recordings of four other young girls using the plane lavatories.
The FBI examined Thompson’s devices and iCloud and found material of girls aged 7, 9, 11 and 14, and pornography generated by AI.
The American Airlines flight attendant was arrested after a 14-year-old girl told her parents he taped an iPhone on a plane toilet seat (Picture: Getty Images)
Estes Carter Thompson III was arrested in January (Picture: AP)
‘Agents have located additional evidence of Thompson’s sexual interest in children within the account,’ stated court documents obtained by the Daily Mail.
‘For example, agents have located hundreds of images of child pornography, which appear to have been created through an artificial intelligence.’
Thompson was arrested in January in Lynchburg, Virginia, and on April 26 was indicted on a count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and a count of possession of images of child sexual abuse depicting a prepubescent minor.
A lawyer for Thompson declined to comment after the indictment by a federal grand jury.
A teenage girl told her parents an iPhone was aped to the back of a toilet seat on an American Airlines flight from Charlotte to Boston (Picture: AP)
The 14-year-old girl’s parents filed a lawsuit in December that stated that the flight attendant entered the plane restroom to wash his hands and then told their daughter that the seat was broken and not to worry about it.
‘It immediately occurred to her that someone had put the phone there to film her using the toilet’, stated the suit.
The girl’s parents claim that the airline flight failed to take the suspect’s phone away, which let him destroy the evidence. They added that the airline failed to take the attendant’s phone away and ‘knew or should have known the flight attendant was a danger’.
Thompson, of Charlotte, North Carolina, remains in federal custody.
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