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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SEX_ABUSE_CHARGE_FLIGHT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULTJul 16, 2013 6:17 PM EDT
Accused airline groper: Woman came on to me
By DAVID PORTER
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A northern New Jersey man on trial for sexually abusing a woman on a cross-country flight told authorities that the woman "was coming on" to him and placed his hands on her breasts and inside her panties in the darkened cabin.
Bawer Aksal didn't take the witness stand Tuesday in federal court, but jurors heard excerpts from an FBI agent's notes of an interview he gave hours after the alleged incident on a Phoenix-to-Newark United flight last August.
The statement flatly contradicted the woman's account. She testified Monday she woke up to find Aksal molesting her and angrily pushed him away before leaving the row and notifying the flight crew.
A United flight attendant testified Tuesday that the woman "had tears in her eyes and she was shaking" when she spoke to her in the back of the plane.
Bawer Aksal
Criminal complaint: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nj/Press/files/pdffiles/2012/Aksal,%20Bawer%20Complaint.pdf
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I know I've always had a desire to initiate sexual contact resulting in foreplay as I flew cross-country on a crowded plane. Yeah, sure...
Once I'm on a plane my first desire is to get off as soon as possible. And that doesn't mean sexually.
This guy must think we're all morons...
spooky3
(34,481 posts)While crying. Don't you?
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Hope they throw the book at the bastage.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)"Since I'm so irresistible and sexy, I knew she wouldn't mind me molesting her, and since she would enjoy that, why not rape her? After all, I'm so sexy."
Criminal mindset. Sociopath.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Just . . . ICK!!!! I ever caught someone doing that to me asshole would lose an appendage and I don't care which one.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)Blue Owl
(50,507 posts)n/t
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Jurors heard a different version on Monday during cross-examination of the woman when they were told that she had sent a text message to a friend before takeoff complaining that " expletive) guy's hairy arm is touching me."
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)my younger days, I was often accused of being a "tease" by guys simply because I smiled and treated them like human beings instead of spitting in their faces.
Although I would imagine that even had I spit in their faces, some would still believe it was probably foreplay...
bleh
Nay
(12,051 posts)a human being thought it was an invitation into my pants. I rapidly developed a "fuck off" facial expression that has served me well. I truly think it must be pretty awful to be a man and be buffeted by sexual thoughts all the time.
raccoon
(31,126 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)raccoon
(31,126 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I stood right up and yelled!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT TOUCH ME..GET OFF THE BUS...(I really do not remember all I said) and the bus driver made him get off the bus...of course the police should have been called, but that was in the early 60's or so.