NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Sleepgroping
Israeli Rabbi Gavriel Bidany, 47, is accused of fondling a sleeping female passenger about 90 minutes into a 12-hour flight to NYC from Tel Aviv last month, The Smoking Gun reports:
Bidany allegedly reached over to the sleeping woman seated next to him and “placed his hand under her blanket, on her groin, and was groping her genital area.” When the victim, identified only as “Jane Doe” in the complaint, “jumped back,” Bidany “quickly removed his hand from her groin.”
The woman told the FBI that she then “pulled her blanket back over her head and body.” But minutes later, Bidany allegedly again “reached under the passenger’s blanket, this time groping the passenger’s breasts.”
“What are you doing, stop touching me,” she told Bidany. He replied, “It’s a mistake, I’m asleep,” according to [a complaint sworn by FBI Agent Janet Ambrisco].
The “visibly shaken and frantic” female passenger got up and told the flight crew about Bidany molesting her.
Following his arrest on a charge of misdemeanor assault, Bidany posted $250,000 bond and was ordered to surrender his passport and to stay within the NYC metropolitan area. His bail was subsequently doubled, and he was allowed to return to Israel from April 14th to May 1st to celebrate Passover and because his father is
“gravely ill.”
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