18 Feb 2013
What in the actual hell is wrong with some people?
This is the first time I’m hearing of this story, but on February 8th a man allegedly slapped a crying two year old on a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta. As if that wasn’t bad enough, 60 year old Joe Rickey Hundley reportedly called the two year old a nigger before he slapped him. The boy’s mother, Jessica Bennett, said that her son started crying even harder after he was slapped because what two year old wouldn’t?
Bennett, 33, told authorities her son was crying as the Delta Air Lines flight prepared for landing. Hundley, 60, was sitting next to her and slapped the boy in his face, causing a scratch under his right eye, she said.
Hundley “told her to shut that (N-word) baby up,” FBI special agent Daron Cheney said in a sworn statement. “Ms. Bennett received assistance from several people on the plane.”
Bennett said that her son is now “apprehensive to strangers” since the flight and said that Hundley smelled of alcohol and was stumbling around the plane.
Hundley was charged with assault and, consequently, fired from his job at AGC Aerospace and Defense.
Joe Rickey Hundley, of Hayden, Idaho, is no longer an employee of AGC Aerospace and Defense, Composites Group, Daniel Keeney of DPK Public Relations confirmed Sunday night.
Al Haase, president and CEO of AGC, released a statement Sunday that didn’t refer to the 60-year-old Hundley by name but called reports of an executive’s behavior “offensive and disturbing” and said he “is no longer employed with the company.”
Hundley plans on pleading not guilty, but if found guilty will only face a year in jail. Which, for assaulting a child, doesn’t really seem like a fitting punishment.
