Delta Air Lines sued over man’s use of lost iPad to record explicit videos

A statement from the airline said ‘the accused individual is not a Delta employee but one of a vendor company’. Photograph: Bjorn Wylezich/Alamy

A Delta Air Lines employee stole a computer tablet left behind on a plane by a South Carolina child, then used it to record sexually explicit videos of himself – which saved to cloud storage and were discovered by the minor’s parents, a recent federal lawsuit alleges.

The child’s parents, Tory and Brooke Brewer, sued Delta in US district court in Charleston on 16 July, saying their family is owed damages for negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and harassment, among other causes.