A Virginia father was befuddled when a Southwest Airlines crew accused him of human trafficking as he was flying home with his teen daughter and her friend following a trip to Las Vegas.
John Kerrigan was boarding his connecting flight to Virginia Beach at Denver International Airport on Oct. 21 alongside his 15-year-old daughter and her 16-year-old friend when the flight staff grew concerned.
A flight attendant approached the two teens and questioned them about their relationship with Kerrigan, who had left his seat to use the plane’s restroom.
“She keeps asking if we’re all right and if we know you,” Kerrigan recalled his daughter telling him, according to WAVY. “And I said it seemed strange.”
Unknown to the father or the teen girls, the flight crew had contacted Norfolk International Airport and reported Kerrigan as a suspected human trafficker.