A woman who was molested on a Delta Air Lines flight filed a $10 million lawsuit
A woman from Detroit is suing Delta Air Lines, saying that the company could have prevented a man from molesting her on a flight from South Carolina in 2016.
Cristopher Finkley, 41, was sentenced in March to a week in jail after pleading guilty to simple assault. The woman said he put a hand under her shorts while sitting in an open seat, according to CBS.
At his criminal sentencing, the woman found out that flight attendants saw Finkley masturbating in first class, earlier in the flight. He defended this by telling FBI agents he likes to sit with his hands in his pants and massage himself.
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The woman told CBS that she was trapped in her window seat, “frozen in terror”. The lawsuit said the crew was negligent in allowing Finkley to roam during the Delta Connection flight to Detroit from Myrtle Beach, despite earlier exposing himself while masturbating in first class.
According to statements from the lawsuit, “The defendant told her that he ‘liked white women’ and asked ‘where’s your man?'” The woman tried repeatedly to stop him.
Meanwhile, Delta said it is “dismayed” by what the woman described. However, the company declined to comment on the lawsuit.
In Finkley’s criminal case, defense attorney Colleen Fitzharris said the man’s behaviour was due to stress and influence of alcohol. “He is embarrassed by his conduct and regrets the pain it has caused the victim, the public and his family,” Fitzharris said in a court filing.
The lawsuit comes amidst a time full of accusations for Delta, like a family threatened with jail for not giving up their two-year-old’s seat or a passenger kicked off the plane for an emergency bathroom run.
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