For the 13-year-old girl travelling unaccompanied on the four-hour flight it began the moment he sat down.
He leaning into her, muttered f**k and attempted to make small talk. He pretended to read a magazine and with each page he turned he allegedly used his hand to brush against her.
He dropped the magazine between her legs and reached down to get it.
For half an hour he allegedly touched and groped the young teenager.
The flight attendant stated in a criminal complaint against Camp that she saw “a single tear coming down the victim’s cheek.” Via IStock.
The young girl was flying home after visiting her father, as an unaccompanied minor she boarded the flight first.
A man, wearing headphones and, according to reports talking to himself, sat down in his assigned seat, 21-B, the one right next to the girl.
The flags should have gone up when he first boarded and flight attendants offered him an alternative seat on the half empty flight, one with more room and not right next to an unaccompanied young girl.
But he declined.
“I’m fine where I am,” he said.
When a flight attendant returned for the drink service a half hour later, she realised exactly why Chad Cameron Camp, 26, had wanted to remain there.
She claims his hand was in the teenager’s crotch.
And the girl..
The flight attendant stated in a criminal complaint against Camp that she saw “a single tear coming down the victim’s cheek.”
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All men ARE potential sex offenders. But they run things, so we have to accommodate their man-baby tears and cries of "Misandry!" whenever we try to protect vulnerable people from them. Men with an actual shred of decency would be aware of the danger women and children face from male predators, and would not take it personally when we take action to keep ourselves safe.
Women are potential sex offenders as well, there's just less of them.
This must be why society traditionally would not let men do the housework or child-rearing - to protect the children from sexual predators and because children need helicopter parenting in addition to that it is not safe outside for the kids we have just explained why women never left / were not allowed by society to leave the house....
Ok you win... How about we talk about risk? We are talking about kids right?
Unaccompanied minors don't travel too much on flights so people are able to rush to the conclusion it is no biggie to ask men to move once a month or whatever for frequent fliers. It is not a great leap to extend this to other forms of public transport or just in public in general. Children every day have to travel to school on buses, trains and the sidewalk by themselves - is it reasonable in our society to either expect all children to be accompanied on their trip to school or that laws should be in place that men are not allowed to be within a one meter radius of a child for longer than deemed reasonable?
It is not impossible - there are countries that have quite strong protection for women and children laws in place for this specific situation, where they are able to go about their day protected from strange men. The laws even go so far as to require women and children never to be unaccompanied by a blood or legal guardian and that men are not allowed to enter areas accessed by unaccompanied children or women. One example is Saudi Arabia.
No. No, you're not allowed to molest children on public transport. No, you can't complain that we're being mean and sexist to you. No, you can't invoke Muslim countries as a reason that you should be allowed to molest children on public transport. Keep your lousy hands to yourself.
And don't look at me like that. You're so transparent. If you really meant well you'd be brainstorming with the rest of us on how to deal with this widespread and infuriating problem.
The point that Victor was making is that if the solution is seen as just don't let men sit next to unaccompanied children on planes then where does it stop. Children travel far more frequently unaccompanied on other forms of public transport. It is not a great leap to presume that if it is legislated that men cannot set next to kids on planes that it will eventually flow down to all forms of transport and potentially any situation.
Segregating men from kids is a short term, narrow minded, band aid solution that does not address the problem and will ultimately make things worse for society.
It completely parallels all the victim blaming arguments regarding women and rape risk avoidance behaviours that are so argued against.
Everything about this all stems back to better education and emphasis on consent and entitlement.
I believe he was using sarcasm to highlight the flaws in the policy
But there's a certain (minor) segment of the population who will assault and molest regardless of education about consent. They're just predators. One of the perpetrators on a plane was a doctor! They do it because they think they can get away with it, which they mostly can and do.