He was on a flight from Minneapolis-to-Atlanta, set to land at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Feb. 8, according to an FBI court affidavit. He was sitting next to Jessica Bennett and her 19-month-old son, who began crying as the plane started to descend.Bennett, who was seated in row 28 alongside Hundley, told FBI agents that she tried to get her son to stop crying when Hundley "told her to shut that ['Nigger'] baby up."
"I said,
'What did you just say?'" Bennett said. "And he was so drunk that he
fell onto my face, and his mouth moved over to my ear and he said it, just
directly into my ear."The 33-year-old
mother then says Hundley slapped her son in the face.
"When I had
looked at Jonah's face, he had, his eye was swollen…and it was bleeding,"
Bennett said. "I was just scared to death."
That's when fellow
travelers stepped in.
"After Joe
Rickey Handley struck [the child], Ms. Bennett received assistance from several
people on the plane, including male passenger Todd Wooten," court
documents said.
Wooten, who was
seated in row 16, said he heard derogatory language coming from the rear of the
aircraft and witnessed Hundley slapping the child.
Hundley was
charged with simple assault, and if convicted of the misdemeanor count, he
faces a maximum term of one year in prison.
"Let's just
let the case speak for itself as it develops," Hundley's attorney Marcia
Shein said.
Shein said her
client will be pleading not guilty.
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