A female passenger has been charged with child abuse for attacking a child who had called her “fat” and “Miss Piggy” on a flight home from Disney World, according to airport police.
Although the exact relationship between Kristy Crampton and the boy was not clear, they were part of a group returning home to Maryland from their Disney trip when she was arrested Monday at Sanford-Orlando International Airport, according to an airport police report obtained by WFTV.
Crampton started swinging at the child just before takeoff when he told Krampton she was too fat to sit in her seat, witnesses told police.
She punched him and then hit him with a water bottle — before slamming the child’s head into the airplane window as he tried to block her blows, airport police said in their report.
The pilot called police for help, and Crampton was taken into custody at the gate.
Crampton told police the child was “very rude” and “disrespectful” during their Disney trip.
After the child called her “fat” on the plane, Crampton took his phone away — then started “smacking” him when he twice shoved her arm off her armrest, she told cops.
However, a witness told police that “the woman was not correcting the child; she was abusing him.”
Their relationship was not immediately clear, and the family declined to provide statements to police, WFTV said.
Crampton was charged with felony child abuse. She appeared in Seminole County court Tuesday, where a judge granted her release on a $10,000 bond. She was ordered to have no contact with the child.
