A New Jersey woman who was molested while she slept by a male passenger on a 13-hour flight testified Monday in court about the shocking incident where she woke up to find that her body and private parts were covered with hand lotion.
The 25-year-old victim recounted the horrifying incident that took place on an Emirates flight from Dubai to Kennedy Airport last October.
The woman, who is only known to the jury by her first name, Stephanie, had to identify the dress and the thong underwear she had been wearing as well as the bottle of Nivea lotion during court on Monday,
Nadeem Memhood Quraishi has been charged with sexual contact without consent and could be deported back to Pakistan if he is convicted.
Stephanie, who had taken an anti-anxiety medication after boarding the plane and fell asleep, said that Quraishi sat in the seat next to her on her right side.
She testified that ‘I love you, you’re pretty’ was whispered in her ear before she woke up. He also asked her if she had ‘slept well.’
‘My entire body felt sticky. I could smell the lotion,’ she testified in Brooklyn Federal Court according to the Daily News. ‘I was shocked. My heart dropped into my stomach.’
She immediately got up and went to the bathroom on the plane, where she noticed that her thong had been pushed aside as lotion covered her shoulders, breasts, arms, inner thighs, calves and vagina.
In addition, she said that her ‘vaginal area was sore’, according to court filings..
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