Joe Rickey Hundley of Hayden, Idaho has been charged with assaulting a minor after he allegedly uttered a racial slur and slapped a 2-year-old boy on a flight to Atlanta for crying during the plane’s descent, reports CNN.
According to court documents, the boy and his mother Jessica Bennett were traveling from Minneapolis to Atlanta on Feb. 8 on Delta Flight 721 when the young child began to cry because of altitude change.
Bennett was reportedly trying to soothe him when Hundley, who was seated next to the mother and son, told her to “shut that n*gger baby up.” Hundley then turned around and slapped the boy in the face with an open hand, resulting in a scratch below his right eye.
Passengers on the plane assisted Bennett after the incident and one of them heard the racial slur and witnessed the alleged assault.
Delta Air Lines spokesman Paul Skrbec said the company is cooperating with the federal investigation of the incident and has apologized “for any inconvenience this caused for the passengers onboard.” Hundley has since been suspended from his job pending the investigation.
Hundley and his attorney have yet to comment on the assault.
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