Doctor admits assaulting sleeping girl on flight
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A doctor has admitted assaulting a sleeping girl on a flight from Seattle to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport this summer.
Vijaykumar Krishnappa appeared before a federal magistrate in Newark on Wednesday.
Prosecutors say the 29-year-old physician intentionally touched the girl near her groin over her leggings without her consent. She was sleeping in the seat next to him on the July flight.
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Under terms of a plea agreement, the Indian national will be sentenced to between 30 and 90 days in prison in January.
He was studying medicine in the U.S. under a fellowship for doctors from foreign counties.