Overview

• Thompson received an 18.5-year prison term and five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of child pornography.
• He concealed an iPhone beneath warning stickers on first-class lavatory seats to film five girls aged 7 to 14 over a nine-month period.
• Judge Julia E. Kobick condemned his actions as “appalling” and prosecutors detailed the profound emotional harm inflicted on the victims.
• He is incarcerated at Federal Medical Center Butner in North Carolina and ordered to undergo sex-offender-specific treatment.
• American Airlines immediately fired Thompson, has replaced its outside counsel after backlash over earlier legal filings and faces a Texas civil lawsuit from a victim’s family.