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News Reports 3 : Dec 4-31 2005





The Timaru Herald
December 9 2005,

Airline policy
Letter to the Editor
by R Denham, Temuka

Why are the airlines only targeting men in their efforts to stop them sitting next to unaccompanied children? Although there seems very little publicity regarding women abusing youngsters, this surely cannot be ruled out, and there must be a considerable number of cases (not necessarily on airlines) when this happens.

In any case it would surely be fairly difficult to interfere with a child on a plane anyway, with passengers in close proximity. It seems a very extreme measure.