American Airlines retreats after blaming a 9-year-old for not seeing a hidden camera in a lavatory (cw: sexual exploitation of children, attempted victim blaming)
American Airlines is walking back a court filing in which it seemed to blame a 9-year-old girl for not noticing a camera phone when she used an airplane lavatory.
In response to the lawsuit, American said in a court document that it would dispute the family’s claim by showing that any injuries the 9-year-old girl suffered were caused by the girl’s “own fault and negligence, were proximately caused by (her) use of the compromised lavatory, which she knew or should have known contained a visible and illuminated recording device.”
So American airlines is thinking about the 14 year old who busted they're guy and going "Thats not fair, how did she notice when you couldn't?" Without realizing how demonic essentially saying "skill issue" to a child exploited in such a way looks.
I'm not gonna crawl for a different article that mentions it but the photo is apparently deceiving because the 14 year old said the flash wasn't on when they sat down.