A man has been arrested after he
allegedly put his hands down a sleeping female passenger’s underpants – as his
wife sat next to him.
Daily Mail reports that the
alleged assault took place on an overnight Spirit Airlines flight from Las
Vegas to Michigan.
Prabhu Ramamoorthy was arrested
after the 22-year-old victim told authorities she woke up to find her pants and
shirt unbuttoned and the man’s hand ‘aggressively’ down her pants.
The 34-year-old’s wife sat next
to him in an aisle seat.
The incident is believed to have
taken place around in the early hours of the morning – 40 minutes before the
flight landed.
Ramamoorthy, an Indian citizen,
only stopped his assault when the victim, who was in the window seat, woke up
suddenly, it is claimed.
Spirit staff told authorities
that she came to the back of the plane shaking and crying with her trousers and
shirt unbuttoned.
Ramamoorthy told police that he had
taken a sleeping pill and was not awake at the time of the alleged attack, and
claims his wife said the victim had been sleeping across his knees.
His wife gave the same
information to investigators, leading to them believing she was covering for
him.
Federal prosecutor Amanda Jawad
said: “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 offense
particularly egregious and the defendant even more of a danger to the community
is the fact that it took place on an airplane.
“He was brazen enough to do this
basically in public, next to his wife where anyone could have seen him.”
Ramamoorthy later altered his
story, telling an FBI agent that he might have unclasped the sleeping
stranger’s bra ‘while playing with it’ and had cupped her breasts over her
blouse.
Court documents show Ramamoorthy
also admitted ‘unzipping the woman’s trousers part-way and putting his finger
in her underpants’ in an attempt to digitally penetrate her, but was ultimately
unsuccessful.
He briefly appeared in US
District Court in Detroit for a preliminary hearing and was remanded to jail to
await a detention hearing.
He has since requested the US
government to contact the Indian consulate regarding his case.
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