Overview

• Thompson pleaded guilty in March to one count each of attempted sexual exploitation of children and possession of images of child sexual abuse depicting a prepubescent minor.
• A 14-year-old passenger on a September 2023 flight from Charlotte to Boston discovered his concealed iPhone taped beneath a restroom toilet seat.
• Investigators allege he recorded four other girls between the ages of 7 and 14 using airplane lavatories over a nine-month period.
• U.S. government attorneys said in a sentencing memorandum that his actions robbed five young girls of their innocence and inflicted fear, mistrust and insecurity.
• In court, Thompson apologized for his “selfish, perverse and wrong” conduct before beginning his sentence at FMC Butner.