A 41-year-old Indian-origin man in the US has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for sexually abusing a minor boy in 2019.
District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced Neeraj Chopra, who is from Minneapolis, for engaging in sexual contact on an airplane during a flight from Boston to Minneapolis, according to a statement by the US Department of Justice.
Chopra was convicted of the crime in July last year following a three-day trial.
According to the report, Chopra knowingly engaged in abusive sexual contact with a 16-year-old victim who was seated next to him aboard a Jet Blue flight from Boston to Minneapolis in April 2019.
Chopra through a blanket draped over his lap, with a portion of the blanket also covering the victim’s right leg. And began inappropriately touching the victim and ignored the victim’s multiple requests to stop, it said.