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February 16, 2013

Company president, 60, 'slaps 19-month-old toddler in the face on a plane and tells his mother to ''shut that n****r baby up'''

After demanding that the mother of a crying toddler “shut that nigger baby up,” a male passenger allegedly slapped the 19-month-old across the face as a flight prepared to land in Atlanta.

The shocking incident aboard Delta Airlines Flight 721 resulted in Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, being charged with simple assault according to a U.S. District Court affidavitHundley, is president of an aircraft parts manufacturer headquartered in Hayden, Idaho.

In an interview, Hundley denied striking the toddler or using a racial slur, though he did acknowledge that he “asked the mother to quiet the child.” Hundley, who said he was traveling to Atlanta to visit a hospitalized relative, described himself as “distraught” on the flight, during which he said he consumed a single alcoholic drink.


As detailed by FBI Agent Daron Cheney, Hundley was traveling to Atlanta from Minneapolis in seat 28A on the MD-90 twin-engine jet. He was seated next to Jessica Bennett, who shared seat 28B with her son Jonah.
Bennett, 33, told investigators that the “aircraft was in final descent” to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport when her child “started to cry due to the altitude change.” Bennett added that she “was trying to get [her son] to stop crying, but he continued.”
At this point, Bennett recalled, Hundley used the racial epithet as he told her to shut the child up. He then allegedly “turned around and slapped” the toddler in the face “with an open hand, which caused the juvenile victim to scream even louder.” The slap, Bennett said, “caused a scratch below [the child’s] right eye.”

After Hundley hit the child, Agent Cheney reported, Bennett received assistance from several other passengers, including Todd Wooten, who was in seat 16C. Wooten told agents that he “heard derogatory language coming from the rear of the aircraft” and got up to investigate. “According to Mr. Wooten,” Cheney noted, “he saw Joe Rickey Hundley strike” the toddler.

Bennett told  that she believed Hundley was intoxicated when he boarded the plane, adding that he “reeked of alcohol” and was “stumbling around wasted.” Bennett, who was traveling to a family funeral, said that Hundley drank several double vodkas during the two-hour flight and complained to her that her adopted son, was too big to be a “lap baby.”
Hundley was charged with simple assault, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta. If convicted of the misdemeanor count, he faces a maximum of one year in prison.

20 comments:

  1. I wouldn't have reacted like that, but I personally find nothing more annoying than to be next to a screaming crotch dropping. Maybe put 'im in cargo next time. Leave the seats for the cats and dogs.

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    1. Looks like you don't or never have had any children. Maybe you're not capable of it.
      So generous of to state you'd not have reacted like that; and even more generous probably your suggestiion that those seats be left for cats and dogs.

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  2. alcohol will do that, Mel Gibson paid more for his alcohol induced

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  3. Damn sad a drunken passenger has to use assault & racial slurs to get a mother to act on her responsibilities. We know the type; the privileged "entitlement" crowd that believes we all have to accept their lack of responsibility & accountability. A much better action would to be to put the mother on TSA's "No Fly" list!

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  4. you know, it's perfectly OK for the "hero" cops to taser, pummel, abuse, punch, shoot and thoroughly beat the crap out of people and the cop worshipers think nothing of it.
    While the Hundley character is completely out of line with slapping someone else's child, there should not be any charges.
    It is possible the child deserved it. Too many parents do not know how to handle their children.
    If it were a cop, he would have tazed the brat and gotten off without a slap on the wrist.
    Welcome to the double standard world of the US slaves.

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    1. I'd have thought that you'd use this as a supplementary argument in favour of rigid actions against the murderous cops, but then, you got such a sense of humour.

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    2. You're definitely sick in the head...

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  5. And you wonder why Mass Transit fails, and People avoid cities. These "good" people dig their own demise.

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  6. Hundley deserves a medal.

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  7. Let's see, he was charged with simple assault.

    How about child abuse or a hate crime enhancer?

    And if the jackass was being served mutiple double vodkas by the flight crew, the civil liability is going to be huge.

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  8. Terrible thing to do, but haven't we all been tempted at some stage?

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    1. All? Certainly not. Most, I'm sure; and I'm equally sure you'll agree with me that these can only be uneducated and uncivilized scum.

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  9. It's humane to put loud suffering children out of their misery.

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    1. I'd very much like to put you out of your misery; I always go around with a baseball bat.

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  10. Can we just ship some of these commenters an Island off Tasmania? Good grief the ugliness: a crotch dropping? putting children out of their misery? the guy should get a medal, entitlement crowd stereotyping? Sounds like people that should not be allowed near elementary schools with guns. They are already over the line.

    We know the type: prone to drink too much in times of crisis...or non-crisis, self-important, irritable, arrogant, kicks the dog, slaps a kid, shouts obscenities when doesn't get his way, intolerant of anyone else who isn't him, low self-esteem from a difficult childhood. A dysfunctional person who needs counseling and a anger management therapy.

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  11. it's usually the ugly white children making noise and generally being a bother on a plane. the higher the socioeconomic class, the worse the children seem to behave. most of the younger age black children are more borderline autistic/lead poisoned or at a minimum they know that they won't be cut any slack in an environment full of potentially hateful - or even violent - white people.

    i haven't seen a decently well behaved child of any race in the US for years. they are all either drugged, poisoned, and/or indoctrinated in the disgusting culture of subuman american trash. (how many nanoseconds have you gone without thinking of kim kardashian's ass, american idiots?)

    ahhh america... .sad to see you go down the drain... lol ... just kidding... good riddance.

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  12. Where are the air-marshals when u need 'em? Someone should have tasered the kid. I see its 'the norm" in amerikan policing nowadays.

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    1. Yeah...Sad to say, but becoming true!

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  13. I have never seen so many stupid, asinine people make bloviated comments in such a short period of time. I think a lot of you need a lot of help!

    Any person who works on a plane during flight knows in advance that babies will start crying on ascent and decent. They are, unknowingly trying to equalize the pressure on their ear drums. Being so young they don’t know what is going on and it can hurt. They don’t have a vocabulary to tell anyone what is bothering or hurting them, so they cry.

    I hope some of these people with their asinine statements have plugged ear canals when they next fly. No amount of chewing gum is going to help. I’ve seen a grown man cry from it!

    As far as the guy slapping the baby, throw the book at the ass. I just hope he’s never had any kids in his life and never will. He would be doing the nonexistent kids and us a favor!

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