http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=75670

Peabody woman tells of in-flight assault
By J.M. Lawrence
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - Updated: 04:46 AM EST

A 25-year-old Peabody woman testified yesterday she woke up in horror
aboard a Delta flight three years ago to discover a man with his hand
down her pants.

      ``What the (expletive) are you doing?'' the medical secretary
told jurors she said as she grabbed the man's forearm. ``He looked at
me as if he had no idea what I was taking about.''

      The woman identified Arizona health care executive Deepak
Jahagirdar yesterday as the man who digitally raped her as she slept
during the afternoon Dallas-to-Boston flight on March 31, 2002.

      Jahagirdar, 56, has pleaded innocent to charges of sexual abuse
and abusive sexual contact aboard an aircraft and faces up to 20 years
if convicted.

      Testing on DNA taken from scrapings of his fingernails matched
the woman's DNA, prosecutors said.

     The woman, whose name is being withheld, said she tried to leave
her row after the assault, but Jahagirdar would not put up his tray
table. She pushed by and reported the incident to a flight attendant.

      Delta flight attendant Kelly Horn testified she asked the woman
whether the incident was an accident.

      The woman said no and described the attack to her, Horn told
jurors.



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