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A Seattle man was sentenced to eight months in prison for groping a teen girl on a flight from Paris to Washington state in 2022, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Milan Edward Jurkovic, 36, was convicted in December of abusive sexual contact following a three-day jury trial, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. Court documents show Jurkovic had pleaded not guilty. At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Robert S.
” Jurkovic’s attorney listed in court records could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday. The teen victim, who sat next to Jurkovic for hours on the flight, was with a school group from western Washington returning from a class trip abroad, prosecutors said. Roughly three hours into the flight, Jurkovic reached under a blanket, prosecutors said, and began groping the victim’s thigh. “The victim was shocked and frozen with fear,” prosecutors said.
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