A teenage girl is speaking out after she says she was sexually assaulted while traveling alone on a United Airlines flight heading from Seattle to Newark.
According to CBS News, the teen said that she was heading to the New York area after winning admission to a young women’s leadership academy.
The girl, who was not named, told the broadcaster that she was sleeping while on a red-eye flight when she woke up to find someone touching her legs.
“I knew what was going on but like, I just thought I was dreaming or something, like, this cannot really be happening,” she told CBS News. “He tried to put his other hand underneath my pants and I kind of woke up and was like ‘What are you doing?’” she said.
The girl then reported it to a flight attendant, who moved her to another seat row on the plane.
But she was still terrified.
“I just felt like he could see me. Like he could see wherever I was sitting,” she said. “There was just still so much time, like, I couldn’t just leave the plane. I didn’t have anyone. I didn’t feel like there was anyone on the plane that could protect me.”
