Attorney Craig Tobin has taken aim at United Airlines, after Tobin says the Chicago-based airline’s employees did not stop a passenger from sexually assaulting his client.
“It seems like every time there was an opportunity to prevent this from happening," Tobin said. "Nobody did anything.”
Tobin filed a lawsuit against United on behalf of his client Katie Campos.
Back in December, Campos and her fiance had been on a flight from Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York when Tobin says a highly intoxicated man sitting next to his client started to grope her.
“He kept saying 'I want to kiss you, I want to touch you,'" Tobin said. "He touched Katie, she screamed out and struck his hand away, he said 'I am not touching you.'"
Tobin says Campos got up and asked the flight attendants to handle the problem, but according to the lawsuit that did not happen.
"(She) tried to get help from the flight attendants who admitted that they have not been trained to handle type of situation," Tobin said.
Before the lawsuit, Campos posted on Twitter about her experience on that united flight included the hashtag #dobetter.
United said in a statement that sexual harassment has no place on its aircrafts. The company went onto say that in this case that they moved Campos “to a different seat after learning of this customer’s behavior and our pilot requested that local law enforcement meet the aircraft on arrival in buffalo, after which authorities removed the customer from the flight.”
Tobin says his client wants this lawsuit to bring about change.
“She doesn’t want any other woman to have to suffer like this again," he said. "So no one ever suffers this again."
