New York: Thami Drissi, a Moroccan engineer, pleaded guilty for sexually abusing an American woman while traveling on a Casablanca-New York flight last August.
According to the New York based Daily News, the defendant admitted before Brooklyn Federal Court that he had sexual contact with the victim without her consent. He faces up to one year in jail and registration as sex offender.
The 45-year old was arrested last August in New York JFK airport for sexually abusing an American woman.
The victim of sexual abuse claimed that the man had placed his hands under her blouse on her breast and attempted to place his hands inside the front of her pants, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The engineer initially denied the accusation and said that he touched the woman only to move her head when she nodded off on his shoulder.
He is married and father of two children.