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The American Airlines flight attended arrested for secretly recording a teenage girl in the bathroom had four other videos of minors on his phone, court documents have revealed.
Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, was indicted on one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor.
He was arrested in January for allegedly trying to secretly record a 14-year-old passenger while she was using the bathroom on the flight he was working on last September. She noticed a phone taped to the toilet and alerted her parents.
The FBI then found other victims after searching his devices and iCloud including material of girls ages 7, 9, 11 and 14, as well as AI generated pornography.
'Agents have located additional evidence of Thompson's sexual interest in children within the account. For example, agents have located hundreds of images of child pornography, which appear to have been created through an artificial intelligence,' said court documents view by DailyMail.com.
American Airlines flight attendant Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, had four other videos of minors on his phone, court document said
Investigators said that about midway through the September 2, 2023, flight from Charlotte to Boston, the 14-year-old got up to use the main cabin lavatory nearest to her seat but found it was occupied.
Thompson then told her the first-class lavatory was unoccupied and escorted her there, investigators said. Before she entered the bathroom, Thompson allegedly told her he needed to wash his hands and that the toilet seat was broken.
After he left, the teen entered the bathroom and saw red stickers on the underside of the toilet seat lid, which was in the open position, stating, 'INOPERATIVE CATERING EQUIPMENT', 'REMOVE FROM SERVICE' and 'SEAT BROKEN' handwritten in black ink on one of the stickers, according to court documents.
Beneath the stickers, Thompson had concealed his iPhone to record a video, investigators said. The girl used her phone to take a picture of the stickers and
