So here is a tale of justice of sorts: Joe Rickey Hundley, the former executive from Idaho who slapped a crying toddler on a Delta flight as it was on approach to Atlanta last February, has been sentenced to eight months in federal prison for the assault. He had pleaded guilty in October in a plea bargain that was supposed to have given him a six-month sentence, but the judge gave Hundley more time because he had a previous criminal history including an assault. And also, who the hell slaps a baby and yells “shut that n****r baby up” while doing it? Oh yes: this guy.
As you recall from our previous stories, Hundley had slapped the baby and called him the racist name, but after his arrest in February explained that he was definitely not a racist at all, oh no. Also, he may have been a little drunk, but he had a very understandable reason, which was that his son was in an Atlanta hospital, brain-dead from an insulin overdose, and Hundley was on his way to be there when life support was disconnected. And that is genuinely horrible. Grief is terrible and painful, but we are pretty sure that Elisabeth Kubler-Ross never identified “sudden outbursts of racist slurs while slapping a toddler” as one of the stages. We’d have remembered that one.
Airplane Baby-Slapper Sentenced To Eight Months In Federal Prison, Still Not Racist At All
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