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A former American Airlines flight attendant who prosecutors said “took advantage of his position of trust” to secretly record and “exploit” innocent young girls in airplane bathrooms was sentenced in Boston federal court Wednesday.
Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to 18 and a half years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, according to court documents.
In a sentencing memo, federal prosecutors described how Thomspon targeted unaccompanied minors and lured them to bathrooms he rigged with a hidden camera “for his own sexual gratification.”
“Estes Carter Thompson III took advantage of his position of trust as a flight attendant to select among the passengers on his flights innocent children who he could exploit, directing them to an aircraft bathroom that he had set up as a secret recording studio, recording videos of the children’s bodies in one of