A Great Neck man who groped a sleeping woman on a flight to New York received a six-month prison sentence on Monday — after a federal judge said the crime demanded the strongest punishment available.
The victim, identified by authorities as “Kelly” was 26, exhausted after a youth ministry retreat in Phoenix, and fast asleep in her window seat on a Delta flight home to JFK International Airport four years ago when she woke to something wrong.
She didn’t know what it was at first, reporting only later that she had a strange feeling, prosecutors said. She stood up, walked to the restroom, returned to her seat and fell back asleep…