I've yet to read about a U.S. sex trafficking prosecution in which perpetrators took young victims on commercial airline flights, let alone one in which this crime was thwarted by vigilant airline staff. But I have encountered multiple cases in which innocent parents or partners of people on a flight have been senselessly mistaken for human traffickers and had police called on them by flight staff.
That's what happened to Nicholas Cupp, a father and U.S. Army veteran who was flying with his 13-year-old daughter and other family members in December 2019.
