Showing posts with label assault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label assault. Show all posts

Monday, April 1, 2024

A Taylor Swift fan is suing Delta Air Lines after she was sexually assaulted on a flight.

A Taylor Swift woman-fan is suing Delta Air Lines after claiming she was sexually assaulted on a flight last year, Newsweek reported.

The incident occured in the moment the woman was flying from Phoenix to Seattle on her way back from attending a Taylor Swift concert.

According to a press release from Mark Lindquist Law, Duane Brick, 53, who was a Delta mechanic at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact in March, During the flight, he admitted, he had taken the victim's hand and placed it on his crotch, per the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington.

He also reached under her shirt and groped her breast while she appeared to be asleep, per the Attorney's Office statement. Brick now faces up to two years in prison.

Delta is facing another lawsuit from the family of a 13-year-old girl who was also sexually assaulted on a flight.

The suit claimed Delta staff "enabled" the assault by allowing the "visibly intoxicated" offender, Brian Patrick Durning, to board the flight and serving him alcohol throughout.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Taylor Swift's father also chooses to be famous

An investigation was opened Tuesday in Australia after a complaint from a photographer claiming to have been assaulted by the father of American singer Taylor Swift, police announced.

“Police were informed that a 71-year-old man was accused of assaulting a 51-year-old man at Neutral Bay Wharf,” a ferry terminal in Sydney’s north, “before leaving the scene,” the statement said. a spokeswoman Alicia McCumstie. “The younger man reported the incident and the investigation is ongoing,” she added.

The photographer, Ben McDonald, told AFP that his alleged attacker was the father of pop star Scott Swift.

He said he was taking photos of Taylor Swift on a yacht on Sydney Harbor after her tour in the city when, he said, members of the singer's security held up an umbrella in front of him to to prevent her from continuing as the singer went down to the pier to join a vehicle.

Australian police do not usually release the identities of people under investigation.

This case comes as Taylor Swift travels this week to Singapore, the only stop in Southeast Asia on her major The Eras tour.