Man Who Sexually Assaulted Airline Passenger Convicted, Could Face Life In Prison

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August 20, 20181:02 AM ET

Vanessa Romo

Prabhu Ramamoorthy, 35, was convicted on Thursday of sexually assaulting a sleeping passenger aboard a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit. He could face life in prison.
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It took a jury less than four hours of deliberation to convict a Detroit-area man of sexually assaulting a sleeping passenger onboard a Spirit Airlines flight.

Prabhu Ramamoorthy, who was traveling alongside his wife at the time of the attack, was found guilty on Thursday of digitally penetrating a 22-year-old woman who had fallen asleep in the window seat next to him during an overnight flight from Las Vegas to Detroit.

U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said in a statement that the sexual assault jolted the woman awake. That is when she found Ramamoorthy's hand was down her unzipped pants and that her shirt had been undone, The Washington Post reported.

The attack took place on a late-night flight that landed in Detroit on Jan. 3, and Ramamoorthy was taken into custody upon arrival. ...............................

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/20/640103324/man-who-sexually-assaulted-airline-passenger-convicted-could-face-life-in-prison

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Ex-Texas doctor who raped heavily sedated patient in hospital gets no jail time



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/19/ex-texas-doctor-who-raped-heavily-sedated-patient-in-hospital-gets-no-jail-time.html

By Katherine Lam | Fox News





A former Texas doctor who was found guilty on Thursday of raping a heavily sedated patient will not serve time in prison for his crime.

Shafeeq Sheikh, a former physician at Baylor College of Medicine, was sentenced to 10 years of probation on Friday and will have to register as a sex offender. A 12-person jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting a patient five years prior, the Houston Chronicle reported.


The jurors recommended the sentencing, to which visiting Senior District Judge Terry L. Flenniken was required to follow by law, according to the newspaper.

Sheikh was working the night shift at Houston’s Ben Taub Hospital in 2013 when a woman, previously identified as Laura, was admitted for shortness of breath and wheezing. She was in the hospital overnight and sedated when Sheikh came to her room several times during the night and sexually assaulted her...............................




DNA evidence was collected from a rape kit — but it took two years for charges to be filed against Sheikh. The DNA collected from the former doctor’s cheek swab match those in a rape kit.

Surveillance video also captured Sheikh on the floor where the woman’s room was located. He used his badge to swipe onto her floor at least 12 times that night.....................



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Dr. Shafeeq Sheikh at his sentencing on Friday. (AP)