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LOS ANGELES: A Peruvian pastor pleaded guilty in a US court on Monday to groping a sleeping woman’s buttocks while on a flight from Denver to Los Angeles.
Juan Carlos Del Carmen Leyva, 41, admitted before a Los Angeles federal court judge that he fondled a clothed fellow passenger for about three minutes on board a Southwest Airlines flight on April 18.
He said he touched the woman “with the intent to arouse and gratify his sexual desire.”
As part of his plea deal, he faces no more than a year in prison at his sentencing on June 6.
According to an affidavit by the FBI, which investigated the incident, Leyva tried to engage the woman in conversation during the flight but she rebuffed him because “he had horrible breath.”
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