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Southwest Airlines Sued After Minor Was Allegedly Sexually Assaulted by Another Passenger
Southwest Airlines is at the center of a lawsuit, in which a teenager claims it failed to protect him from an in-flight sexual assault in 2022.
On Thursday, July 18, Greenberg Gross LLP announced in a press release sent to PEOPLE that it had filed a lawsuit against the airline on behalf of a teenager who says a man, who appeared to be 50 years old, sexually assaulted him on a connecting flight from Las Vegas to Portland on July 4, 2022.