The presence of his wife who sat beside him did not prevent an Indian national, Prabhu Ramamoorthy, 34, from dipping his hands into the underpants of a 22-year-old lady, who was asleep on a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit. This happened on Wednesday, January 3, 2018.
Ramamoorthy, who was charged with aggravated sexual abuse and held without bail after an appearance in a Michigan Federal Court the following day was reportedly living in the United States of America on a temporary visa.
The Independent News UK reported that the victim woke up to find her shirt unbuttoned as well as the man's hand in her pant.
This was confirmed by female prosecutor Amanda Jawad who disclosed that the accused stop the act as soon as the abused woke up.
She reportedly disclosed what had happened to her to flight attendants who informed federal prosecutors that the victim came crying to them prompting them to offer her a different seat.
Ramamoorthy's wife who visited the circle to confirm what had gone wrong explained that her husband had taken “plain Tylenol" which made him a potential flight risk. The prosecutor however submitted that she appeared to be either covering for him or was totally absent minded about the incident.
“It seems that she's either colluding with the defendant to cover up his actions or she's completely oblivious to what he did,”
“What makes this offence particularly egregious and the defendant even more of a danger to the community is the fact that it took place on an aeroplane. He was brazen enough to do this basically in public, next to his wife where anyone could have seen him,” Jawad said.
After a lawyer for the accused, Richard O'Neill successfully argued that he was a flight risk using his medication as a backing, Magistrate Judge Steven Whalen, who described the matter as a “very unusual case,” ordered that Ramamoorthy be remanded pending trial.
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