BY AARON MILLER
An ex American airline operations manager who learned of the first Sept. 11, 2001, hijacking before the jet struck the World Trade Center, has pleaded guilty to a federal interstate child-sex charge in Pittsburgh.
55 year old Ray Howland, of Arlington, Texas, entered the plea before a Senior U.S. District Judge G on Wednesday. Child sex charges are serious in America, and very stigmatic. The maximum punishment for illegal sexuality activity in the United States is life imprisonment.
Howland was arrested near Pittsburgh International Airport last June by an undercover state attorney general’s agent who posed online as a woman with a 10-year-old daughter. Howland used an iPad and cellphone to send explicit messages after posting an ad online that he was “looking for a family or a couple of girls” for sex while in town on business, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Lieber Smolar told the judge.
“A lot of times in these cases you see double that amount,” defense attorney Frank Walker II said of the 10-year sentence. “It’s hard to say someone can be satisfied, but they will be accepting of a 10-year sentence. When they’re facing 19, 20 years, it seems like a reasonable resolution.”
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The charge is an embarrassment and disgrace to an airline operations manager, who should know much better. The consequence of his stupidity was also borne in embarrassment by his wife and children, who were also in the court room to hear about his extremely perverted engagements.
Howland received some of the first panicked calls from employees at Boston’s Logan Airport , when reporting the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. The plane was the first of two that crashed into New York’s World Trade Center towers. Recorded documents show that Howland instructed against the immediate disclosure of the hijacking minutes before the Boeing plane hit the World Trade Center
Howland was a supervisor at American’s system operations control center. Transcripts show he told other American employees not to disclose the hijacking minutes before the Boeing 767 hit the World Trade Center. American Airlines confirmed to the eye of media.com that Howland has been sacked. The ex American airline operation manger, was in the implementation process of a business deal involving an American merger at the time he was arrested.
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A professional with obvious accomplishment, his downfall had to be so sickening and revolting. The poor scar he has put on his dear wife and child, who will definitely have nightmares over the disgrace his ill judgment has brought upon them.
PicBy Piergiuliano Chesi, CC BY-SA 3.0
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