Black social worker sues American Airlines, alleges she was suspected of kidnapping White toddler

Read full article here: https://readnews.io/94lovt A Black social worker has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that crew members suspected her of kidnapping a White toddler who she accompanied on a fall flight. Social worker Shannon Murphy claims that American Airlines employees separated her from the 1-year-old boy she was escorting on an October 2019 flight and removed her from the aircraft for about 40 minutes out of suspicion that she was abducting the child, Business Insider reports. SPIRIT AIRLINES EMPLOYEES ATTACKED IN FLORIDA AIRPORT BY 3 PASSENGERS REPORTEDLY UPSET WITH FLIGHT DELAY. The social worker for Riverside County, Calif. , filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on June 17, accusing the carrier of violating her civil rights false and alleging imprisonment and negligence, per The Mercury News. The suit seeks unspecified damages, as well as compensation for both past and future medical expenses. In the wake of the Oct. 27 incident, Murphy said that she has been seeing a therapist, and suffering insomnia and nightmares. According to the case, Murphy was accompanying the 1-year-old from a two-week, court-mandated visit to see his father in Arkansas, per Insider. While another unnamed passenger waited for the second leg of their flight to depart from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Ontario International Airport in California, they told a flight attendant that Ms. Murphy was holding a kidnap victim, the Mercury News reports. Though the child in Murphy's care had very light skin and blond hair, he was reportedly mistaken for an alleged, missing Hispanic child from New York City, who was 5 years old and had dark hair. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE FOX LIFESTYLE NEWS. Then, Murphy claimed, the airline staffers asked for her boarding pass, told her she needed to exit the aircraft with them and took the baby from her. "I was shaking," she told Insider of the ordeal, in an interview published Thursday. "I was scared, even though I