An Indiana man was sentenced to just 30 days in prison on Wednesday after he sexually grabbed two minor girls on a flight into Portland in December 2024.
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Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., of the U.S. District Court in Portland handed down the sentence after Aiden J. Carter, 27, of Indiana, pleaded guilty in December 2025.
In December 2024, Carter was a passenger on a flight to Portland and was seated next to a 17-year-old girl.
He grabbed the girl’s thigh without her consent, and she pushed his hand away.
After the 17-year-old pushed him away, Carter repeatedly reached across the plane’s aisle, and grabbed and squeezed the thigh of a 16-year-old sleeping passenger.
Carter’s groping woke the girl up, and he reached towards her genitals before being stopped.
The Portland Police Department and the FBI investigated the case after the plane arrived at its destination.
In addition to his minuscule 30-day jail sentence for sexually assaulting two minors, Carter will be required to complete a “sex offender evaluation” and “any recommended treatment” and will be subject to five years of supervised release.
The sentence notably did not require him to register as a sex offender.
