Woman criticises airline's handling of groping on flight

A Michigan woman who says she was groped by a male passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight says airline staff asked her to move to another seat after she reported the assault, rather than moving the man. Tia Jackson said she was on a flight from Atlanta to Detroit Tuesday morning when she was groped as she was sleeping. The woman said she was sitting in a middle seat with a friend seated by the window when a man seated in the aisle seat assaulted her just before landing. Spirit Airlines said it takes Jackson's allegation seriously and explained that the staff's rationale in asking her to move was to isolate the man, who would have then not been seated next to anyone. Jackson said she refused to move because she didn't want to leave her friend and she felt like she was being punished for what the man had done. <br/>