{"id":307017,"date":"2018-12-14T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307017"},"modified":"2018-12-14T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:34:54","slug":"us-court-awards-9-year-imprisonment-to-indian-techie-for-sexual-assault-on-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-court-awards-9-year-imprisonment-to-indian-techie-for-sexual-assault-on-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"US court awards 9-year imprisonment to Indian techie for sexual assault on flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"An Indian techie from Tamil Nadu who was living in the US on a work visa was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of a “brazen sexual assault” against a fellow female passenger inside a commercial airplane early this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prabhu Ramamoorthy, who came to the US on an H-1B visa in 2015, will be deported after he serves his sentence, a federal court in Detroit said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to evidence presented at the trial, Ramamoorthy was in a middle seat between the victim and his wife on a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas. The 23-year-old victim, a model said he unzipped her pants, unbuttoned her shirt and molested her with his hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

At trial, the victim testified that she woke up during the flight and “saw his hands inside me.” The victim said she felt “petrified, frozen.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Prosecutors asked for an imprisonment of nearly 11 years, but US District Judge Terrence Berg settled on a nine-year term. He said he hoped it would be “grave enough” to deter others from committing similar crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has the right to be secure and safe when they travel on airplanes. We will not tolerate the behavior of anyone, who takes advantage of victims who are in a vulnerable position. We appreciate the victim in this case for her courage to speak out,” US Attorney Matthew Schneider said after the sentencing was announced.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Indian techie from Tamil Nadu who was living in the US on a work visa was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of a “brazen sexual assault” against a fellow female passenger inside a commercial airplane early this year. Prabhu Ramamoorthy, who came to the US on an H-1B visa in 2015, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":303991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307018,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307017\/revisions\/307018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}