United Airlines apologises after making dad 'feel like a criminal'

Henry Amador-Batten, a gay father who was accused of inappropriately touching his son by a United Airlines crew member, said that United's apology doesn't make up for the trauma of the incident. "Families like ours that are built by choice and by love are fragile families," he said. "It doesn't take more than an allegation like this to involve an agency that comes and takes your child." Amador-Batten was detained for about an hour at a US airport on Friday, May 19, after a crew member on a flight from New Jersey, to North Carolina accused him of inappropriately touching his son during the flight. Amador-Batten, 52, was returning from Puerto Rico with his son Benjamin, 5, after travelling to the US territory to visit his ill father. His father died during Amador-Batten's visit last week. After Amador-Batten disembarked from the plane, the police told him that a flight attendant had made a complaint that his hand and arm were "too close to the child's genitals." It was an accusation he called one of his worst nightmares.<br/>