Teenager groped on American Airlines flight by Chad Cameron Camp

A man on a flight from Dallas to Portland, Oregon has been arrested and charged with abusive sexual contact after groping a 13- year- old girl who was travelling unaccompanied last week.

According to the Washington Post, Chad Cameron Camp, aged 30, sat in a middle seat next to the teenager on the American Airlines flight. Flight attendants asked him if he wanted to move to a different seat, but he had declined.

The post reported that, according to the attoey representing the girl and her family, Camp brushed her arm and shoulder multiple times, and she tried to move away. They also allege that when he put away a magazine he was reading, he attempted to put it in the seat pocket in front of the girl, but missed, dropping it on her shoes.

Authorities say that he also put his face inches from hers, offered to share his headphones and put his hand on her knee and upper thigh. Her attoey says that she was touched more than 15 times over the course of the flight. A flight attendant, who had retued to the row for drink service, saw Camp’s hand on the girl’s crotch. Camp was then moved to a different seat for the remainder of the flight and arrested upon disembarking.

The teenager’s father paid $150 each way for American Airlines “unaccompanied minor service”. The service, according to the American Airlines website, makes sure that a child who is travelling alone is brought on to the aircraft, introduced to a flight attendant, chaperoned during connections and escorted to the correct person at his or her destination. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, unaccompanied minor service does “not include constant supervision or entertainment during the flight.”