Yeah, my name is Paul Llewellyn.
I'm an attorney at Lewis and Llewellyn in San Francisco,
CA. Absolutely. An American Airlines flight attendant was called filming
young girls on American Airlines flights.
We understand there are at least five victims that were
filmed.
We represent two of the families,
a 14 year old who was from North Carolina and
a nine year old who is from Texas.
So earlier this week, American Airlines filed what's called an
answer to the lawsuit.
And one of the defenses that they're asserting was to
blame the 9 year old,
effectively saying that she knew or should have known that
she was being filmed in the in the planes bathroom.
My reaction is that this is this is outrageous.
While I understand you have to plead potential defences,
I cannot even envision a world where it is appropriate
to point to a nine year old and say it's
not our fault,
this is your fault. You should have known that you
were being filmed.
The family was absolutely appalled.
They were angry. They were outraged.
They were shocked. The idea that American Airlines in their
their words could re traumatize them as a result of
this.
They thought they shared my view that this was absolutely
outrageous.
I understand earlier today American Airlines has issued a statement
effectively filing an amended answer removing this defence.
Well, my reaction to that is it was only after
an intense media and public backlash.
That they've tried to pull back on this,
but the bell cannot be unrung.
They should never have adopted this defence in the 1st
place and so one media outlet described it as a
grovelling statement and I share that view.