hilldo
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Flight Attendant Accused of Spiking Juice
Fri Mar 14,10:18 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!
DETROIT - A former Northwest Airlines flight attendant was charged with assault for allegedly putting a prescription depressant in a toddler's apple juice to stop her crying on an international flight.
Daniel Reed Cunningham, 33, also was charged Thursday with distributing a controlled substance on the Aug. 25 flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
Arraignment was set for Tuesday for Cunningham, who is not in custody, the U.S. attorney's office said.
The girl's mother, Beate Turner, told FBI (news - web sites) special agent Terry Booth that Cunningham seemed upset when her 19-month-old daughter became restless and began squirming and crying on the flight. Cunningham offered the apple juice three times before Turner accepted, according to the agent's affidavit. The girl suffered no serious injury.
Turner later noticed the juice was bitter and foamy and had blue and white specks floating in it. Ten days after the flight, she took the juice to University Laboratories in Novi, which confirmed the presence of Xanax, a prescription medication used to treat panic attacks and anxiety, the FBI said.
The drug's side effects include lightheadedness, fatigue and drowsiness. The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) hasn't approved it for children, the agency said.
Cunningham has denied drugging the child in statements to the FBI. He did not return a telephone message left Friday at a listing for him, and his attorney, Neil Fink, declined comment.
Cunningham also has been charged with importing more than 100 tablets of a non-narcotic controlled substance into the United States on a different flight in October. The tablets included Xanax and Valium.
Northwest spokeswoman Mary Stanik said Cunningham was hired in 1998 and worked for the airline until last Dec. 30. She said she could not discuss his case.
Bastard would get a steel toe so far up his ass it would knock his teeth out!
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nep
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****ing fruitcake druggy flight attendant. i hope he gets his ass thrown in jail. ![[Mad]](images/icons/mad.gif)
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Random Guy
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there've been a few flights where i might've been pretty happy to have him 'taking care of' the crying babies.
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rice
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he's gonna go to jail and someone's going to slip HIM a mickey and then slip 'im something else.
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abalone
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RG, either you and I share a similar warped sense of humor, or perhaps it's because our kids are a bit older. Either way, I found myself thinking, "Well??? Did it do the trick? Did the kid fall asleep or not?"
Ahem, I'm still wondering... ![[Wink]](images/icons/wink.gif)
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Random Guy
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quote:
Originally posted by abalone:
RG, either you and I share a similar warped sense of humor, or perhaps it's because our kids are a bit older....
oh its the warped sense of humor i'm sure, maybe with a little of the 'our kids are older' thing thrown in too.
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Hmm, my take is that it is extremely deplorable to secretly spike the drink of a baby to get him to cry. Especially considering the potential side effects. This could have easily ended in tragedy.
HOWEVER, if you have a baby/toddler who is physically unable to handle a flight, that is VERY unfair to the other passengers, esp. on a red eye flight. That is just bad parental responsibility and pretty damn cruel to the baby too on top of it.
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kainoa's dad
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That could have put that crying baby to sleep for good.
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nep
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quote:
Originally posted by kainoa's dad:
That could have put that crying baby to sleep for good.
Exactly. There is no excuse for drugging a child's food. Poor judgement, lack of respect for human life and happiness. What an asshole this guy is.
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abalone
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Well DUH...
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Waldo
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Yeah, but what if it was a French kid?
Sorry....long, bad day, and RG's warped sense is rubbing off on me. ![[Roll Eyes]](images/icons/rolleyes.gif)
edit: I definitely hope that flight attendant suffers severe punishment for that. Seems like an ongoing theme of substance-related issues with Northwest Airlines. Seems like an overhaul of the corporate culture is in order, and this case would be a good place to start setting an example.
[ March 14, 2003, 05:56 PM: Message edited by: Waldo ]
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