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Sara, I have been following your story and series on this. I am disgusted to know Molin was a predator & rapist. Not the slightest clue in my mind about him was associated with that until now (& I read about him as a kid & thought he was someone to look up to until I found out about this about him). The media painted a very "clean " version of him, which is untrue & misleading. I wish I knew sooner about who he really was. I feel saddened as a Dominican and lover of aviation, that Sten Molin was allowed to fly the A300s at American. I love the A300 alot, I grew up with it and flew on one to Santo Domingo when I was 8 in 2004 & wish I was a pilot for them, like Ed States was (Read about Ed too and feel that Ed inspired the New Jersey in me, since I grew up going to New Jersey & I know I would be a Jersey boy if I grew up in the same time as him). I don't like Molin at all upon finding this out. I feel saddened that he took 200+ people, my people, of the Dominican Republic :( with him in the tragedy of Flight 587. Molin hurt many women and he should have not been allowed to pilot large airliners. He was mentally unfit (given the email he sent about a woman clawing him with her nails) him stalking his victims, and had a penchant for alcohol. He was truly a sick bastard!! I will keep on reading your story and encourage you to keep spreading awareness and women should feel safe in the workplace & more needs to be done to get rid of predators. Molin should have gone to prison for this!!

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It's nice to hear from you, Joseph. This is all very upsetting for so many. The victims of flight 587 should never be forgotten; it was a tragedy that will reverberate forever, especially in the Dominican community

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yeah :( it is :( I wish Flight 587 never happened . It is sad that 200+ of my people had their lives taken away & that N14053 was lost because of the actions of this idiot pilot who shouldn't have been at American in the first place

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Ed States was a saint. Lovely guy. Molin was evil. Sorry for your loss.

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Yes!! I love Ed States! I feel I would have lived my life like Ed alot if I flew for AA bc I love New Jersey , planes & the A300, & being a family man like he was. I could feel how evil Molin was, based on all I've read. Molin was a sex offender that hasn't been caught & so upsetting that he got away with this shit. having a kid with a sixteen year old?!?! what the hell?!?! & thank you. I think about those 200+ lives, Ed States, (minus Molin because Molin was a predator & he was evil) & wish N14053 wasn't lost :( Sten Molin was both an idiot and a predator with no common sense. Molin gives off incel vibes too. I read in once in an article that he was "desperate to get a wife" get married & "settle down " & likely have kids ". Never knew it would escalate to this level. Now I know exactly what was meant by him being desperate, eerily , because he was and no woman would have wanted him. Glad he didn't reproduce with someone in one sense- as in officially having a family of your own, like Ed States did and many other great human beings like him), because knowing Molin is a predator, he would have hurt his children :( he had a 4 year old niece (where there's a photo of her with him!) but the fact that he got a 16 yr old pregnant, is disgusting! he abused a 16 yr old that got pregnant by him. he was an uncle, this is embarrassing!! Its scary knowing his 4 yr old niece, that she didn't know that she had a uncle who was a predator :( to know he was near a child is scary!! (look up his name on google & you will see the photo of him with his niece) his niece is my age. Knowing A) Molin didn't have a wife he reproduced with and B) Sadly he preyed on a 16 yr old and abused her which resulted in her having a kid from this, however, the universe spared them from Molin's evil ( I hope Molin did not have contact with the child of the 16 yr old girl I read that he abused) He is someone that would have hurt/abused children (whether he is a pedophile, I do not know, but if he was, I feel more upset about Molin & hate him completely, both for this and what he did to women & because he was a predator & I have read that he might have taken underage girls on flights) we just never know with these creeps. but I'm saddened to know that Ed is no longer with us, 200+ people were lost and N14053 was lost, due to Molin's stupid actions. If Ed had another copilot beside him, N14053 wouldn't have been lost. Molin, again was an evil moron with no common sense & looked like he lacked common sense based on what I've read and listened to. The 80s & the 90s, such a glorious time for everything, from music, buying real estate (such as in NYC) to aviation, and through the twist of time+the world let this evil person, Molin , become a pilot that would join AA, hurt women, and take 200+ lives with him due to his stupidity . The world should have let another person become an AA pilot who cares, not Molin. Molin should have rot in prison. So much to say bc of this, Molin was a mess & in the short amount of time I was made aware of this (just in 1 month) I have had alot to say about how upset I am at Molin for this. There are many victims here and alot of trauma caused by him. I know how you all feel. To establish rapport with you & the rest of everyone here, I have been through trauma myself (including being in immediate danger of becoming a rape victim bc I was preyed on by a woman who creeped on me when she was in a relationship and I feel like I would have possibly been killed by her or her partner because she carried a knife and lived in my neighborhood, but she moved ) I have healed since & still doing everything I can to protect myself , staying safe so my wounds don't reopen & dodging bullets. Like Molin, the girl that traumatized me, she put up a facade & that's scary!! Its disturbing to know Molin put up a facade to make himself seem "nice". Just know that your stories matter to me, I care & I support you all. My heart is sad & upset to know that Molin caused all this, because sexual assault is very severe trauma for people to deal with. Know that dead predators do not reoffend. Though my heart is sad for the 200+ lives he took with hm and the women he hurt. I believe you all & with me, you are all listened to. I care about you all. Keep speaking out against this and may there be more awareness to stop people like Molin.

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I am so sorry you were a victim of assault.

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Thank You. The danger was imminent, but now it is gone thankfully. I have felt on edge about whoever talks to me ever since & I take refuge in my shell.

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You never get over it.

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agreed!! yeah , its disgusting Ana tbh

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I am sorry. This must be really hard for you. I am so sorry for your community. My prayers are with you. Unfortunately Sten Molin did father a child with a 16 year old kid, who swears to this day that everything between them was consensual and loving. She’s 36 now. She should know better. But Molin was a manipulative predator who messed with your mind and your body.

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Yeah :( it is hard for us to this day :( I think of how life could have been if those 200+ people didn't die and N14053 wasn't lost, (then Molin would have been caught over the sexual assaults at AA he committed, because law enforcement should've gotten a hold of those reports, & the emails are proof) & oh my god!! no, it was not consensual. I feel so sad to know she, now 36, swears to this day that everything was consensual & loving. It was not, because Molin was a manipulative predator who messed with people's minds and their bodies. That's what predators do. Molin had all the traits of a predator. Exactly! She should know better. Because that's why there are laws to protect people (especially minors) from creeps like Molin . This guy was really messed up in the head. I feel bad for the child :( I ask myself, how come he didn't get psychiatrical evaluations? He should have spent it in prison for statutory rape, and being evaluated instead of roaming free and preying on people.

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Sten Molin was a common crook but saw himself as a nihilist ( some sort of “higher” life philosophy). Essentially he revelled in being a flat-out knee crawling thug.

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yes! he does give off that crook vibe & a narcissist. he was such an evil person tbh

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I’ve seen the photo but I don’t think he would have hurt his niece.

He’s got his own child as well. I don’t think he hurt children.

He preyed on American Airlines employees. The stories about him are all from women who were employed in some capacity by American Airlines or workers at JFK Airport. Some of them never reported, some of them followed protocol and procedure, reported and came up against a brick wall. Common responses from AA, we don’t have a record of him being on this flight with you, asking for witnesses, further proof, not enough evidence for a complaint, ignoring reports for months, even years, speaking to colleagues who “don’t verify your claims”, “after an investigation we couldn’t substantiate your allegations”…. This kind of thing. You can’t get anywhere unless you get a consensus among all his victims to band together and come forward. That wasn’t possible over 20 years ago.

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Understandable. sad how he was a predator & preyed on women , or workers at JFK airport. I saw an aircraft catering truck in my neighborhood probably coming from JFK yesterday & now that I see this, I say to myself "these people service aircraft & keep airlines & passengers moving" its disgusting that Molin targeted these women & I wish AA believed you guys. Rape is rape. If they cared about their employees, they should have at least given a rape kit / some form of safety against sexual assault , to protect against people like Molin. Though it wasn't possible 20 years ago, there was credible evidence against him. He was a rapist & serial predator. The victims are witnesses. I empathize with all of you because If I was a woman, sexually assaulted by this man and you were, I would testify for you & by your side. Molin had no decency, common sense, self control or control of his life. What 30 something year old has a kid with a 16 year old? I'm surprised he was legally allowed to operate large aircraft in this mental state, and knowing he STALKED people too and sent disturbing emails. This was enough evidence to report him to the FBI. I wish he was reported to the feds if American didn't do anything. They would have taken this very seriously & proven he did this (all they had to do was contact AOL, trace him and seize his computers as evidence) . This guy wasn't just a predator, he was a stalker too. Always stalking his victims. I wouldn't hire a pilot who did this & I wouldn't want a stalker predator flying my plane, nor would I want to fly with a stalker predator.

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hello and welcome to the landing! I have deleted your comment as it mentions a person's name and personal information who is not involved in the story

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i understand , i was solely referring about how people have said Molin had a kid with a 16 year old, if he did. whether he did or not, I do not know. she could have been 25 for all I knew (before this)

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She’s 37 with a 20 year old daughter. Do the math ffs

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That's my point! She had the daughter at 17!! what the fuck?!?! its so gross!!

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hello, I have had to delete this comment due to language -S

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She’s still a S———-

Who banged half of American. Is that kosher enough?

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He had a penchant for alcohol and young girls. He had a child with a 16 year old child. He was incapable of using contraception and incapable as a pilot. His emails, the accounts from women here, all sickening. Why didn’t all this come out during the NTSB investigation? You might want to ask Michael Leonard, who himself is the scum of the earth.

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EXACTLY!! its disgusting! He was characterized as a teetotaler. NOT! He was clearly an alcohol abuser who shouldn't have been allowed to fly at American Airlines. He indeed was a lousy pilot & Idk how he got hired by AA, let alone , held an ATPL. Molin having a child with a 16 yr old is GROSSS!!

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Joseph this is a wypipo thing.

White abuser Latina women

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damn, that's sad! Latinas shouldn't have to put up with that. I love my Latino/a people & it's sad to see them go through this. My mother wouldn't tolerate it at all, she's a strong woman. All woman are strong. Abusers like Molin are weak.

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I had a close call with Molin coming back from drinks one night with a friend. We are in the Hotel corridor and he must have been listening for us in his room, because a door opens and out he walks.

He comes up to us and goes why don’t you come back to my room, I have drinks, I have food. We said no it was heading into morning and who wants to eat at that time? And who is this guy we hardly know? He looked middle aged to us at the time, around 40, so we thought this is just some sad older pilot.

My friend goes to me as a joke, why don’t you go? So I said no you go. Blah blah. It’s too late to eat. We’ve been out already.

Molin then goes Or I could just e—t both of you out.

Who says that? Who the hell does this guy think he is?

We thought this was hilarious because it was so bad it was funny. My friend has this put down for men she often used. So she goes I always use protection, I just called the local drug store and they’re run out of tiny condoms so you’re out of luck sorry. The mood changes. He got aggressive. He goes what do you mean by that? What are you saying? What are you implying? Nothing and just headed into our rooms. I thought this was a funny story about some douche. Now reading these posts here I know that if I had been alone he probably would have raped me. Having someone else there, he wasn’t going to take on 2 people.

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wow, i'm so glad you managed to escape that. It reminds of a Margaret Atwood quote I've thought about many times over the years, especially as a younger woman who had to be "nice" so much of the time to avoid being in physical danger from fragile-egoed men, "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

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I flew with Molin 4 or 5 times. He never tried anything with me but he was repugnant.

1. He goes to the restroom, then there is a brief incidence of turbulence during this time. He comes out, says to a FA, you’ll need to clean up in there. He’d made a mess of the restroom, on the floor and toilet and he expected her to clean up after him. This happens more than you would expect on a plane but normally a pilot or even passengers clean up or attempt to clean up after themselves. They may ask for extra towels/paper etc. Not Molin.

2. As FAs we are boarding passengers Molin demands coffee and food. Something like I need Coffee, a sandwich or snack otherwise this plane isn’t going anywhere. In a demanding manner.

3. Molin liked to sleep in the general crew rest area, rather than the one reserved for pilots. Nobody could sleep within two bunks of him while he was in there, and this violated protocol. So there were FAs sleeping in their seats.

4. A FA refused a date with Molin so he refused to speak to her. When she would go to ask if he wanted any food/drinks etc he wouldn’t answer her. Until a senior officer told him to grow up.

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This isn’t uncommon. I know of pilots expecting FAs to clean up after them in the bathroom. All of them turned out to be loathsome jerks. How repulsive cleaning up after a grown man in the bathroom.

Commercial flying is for me the worst because you are trapped in a metal tube stink box with hundreds of humans. The toilets always stink, the sleep areas cramped and they stink too. For me flying cargo planes is the ideal. No one but you and your small crew and cargo.

Molin was a loathsome jerk

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Molin was hygenically filthy, never knew that till now. His filth fits his grossness as a person & knowing he was a rapist, goes along with the very filth of his character. He doesn't have any

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Ewwww Molin was disgusting! jeez & so condescending!! growing up is what he needed to do. Sorry to hear FA's went through this at American with this jerk. FA's should be treated with respect & pilots should clean up after themselves. Using the plane as it not going anywhere, that's manipulative of him!! Molin should have been caught & fired

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Holy shit he's gross!! ughhh!! I'm glad you got out of it and trolled him!! Funny how he got angry. That showed his true colors. You & your friend did so well in getting out of this situation. Yeah he backed down thank god. This dude was a manipulative predator

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Laughing at him was not the response he wanted or expected and that is probably why he got angry.

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With these types of men they are looking for a reaction out of you. When they say these things the shock on your face gets them off. You probably didn’t understand this at the time.

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CZL a ruthless cruel bitch who went through men at American like anything in trousers.

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There is no bottom. She has stalked me for months. I lost my dog this week and wrote about the loss. Some very kind messages came in on twitter including from some of the predator’s rape victims who follow me on twitter. The stalker came on the thread about grief and loss to harass and abuse me. Absolute garbage. Literally I have never ever dealt with anyone so twisted before in my life. Subhuman.

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That is horrible. Sending thoughts and love. Losing a pet is really hard. They do become your best friend and love you unconditionally.

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that's unfortunate & gross that this person did this to you. That woman is as twisted as Sten was. Its disgusting!!!! She & Sten are slimeballs. She is in love with a corpse. Sad to hear that your dog died :(

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thanks joseph. I'm in bits about it.

The major downside to working on this story is being faced relentlessly with just how much scum is out there.

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yeah :( I understand. we're here for you, just remember, Molin & CZL are the lowest forms ever to ever have roamed this earth. I wouldn't even call them human beings. They're scumbags. They're forms of shit, excrement is the best way to describe them. The 35 (later 34 due to Molin's stupidity) AA A300s did not deserve to be flown by someone as horrible as Molin. They deserved better than that. Ed States was the ideal pilot & person for the 300s

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Thank you 🙏 the problem is this person craves attention which is why she obsessively inserts herself everywhere. What she doesn’t understand is the longer it goes on the worse it is going to be for her when the consequences come. It’s the long game and she’s taking all the rope to hang herself. Her footprint is all over the internet and she seems to think it’s not all tracked and collected for future legal action. She needs help and to get a life—and most of all, leave me the hell alone.

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you're welcome! & she's so stupid!! i hope she gets arrested for this . Stalking is illegal. She is digging her own hole in this one. There is evidence out against her & you could just use that against her. Her IP address can be traced, and it is logged. All that has to happen is for the feds to ask the ISP & twitter for her IP address & the evidence against her becomes stronger. She needs help & to get a life & to leave you alone

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Birds of a feather Joseph

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exactly! CZL & Molin are horrible!! CZL has the look of someone who would harm another person. Both are horrible, evil forms. I can sense the evil in CZL's face.

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You’ve seen her Joseph? I just got into her Facebook page using a fake account. She friended me. There is a video of her flying an Antonov or some such plane. Lots of photos of Molin. Her whole profile is dedicated to her love for Molin

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Everyone keep in mind she loves this kind of thing and being talked about makes her feel like a main character in a story that does not involve her. I know,, I know, I was guilty of it myself this week but it was just so bad. This is also a person who calls rape victims “sluts.” She’s nobody. The less we talk about this person the better. She’s desperate for any attention. Just my 2 cents

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Reason I also ask is bc I found another fake facebook of Molin, that she may be behind: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081764704614

and:

https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063226546708

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I only saw her twitter. what's her facebook, to look her up? & holy shit! she's crazy! i need to look into this. copy & paste the link to her fb profile here for me to see

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I’ve been in contact with Sara before, I just had to come here and read all of this to see if it was real. I knew Sten was warped but the extent of his behaviour it’s unbelievable what he got away with. Who were his powerful protectors?

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Yes I believe you were one of the first to sound the alarm to me after I posted my glowing defense of him

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Sten Molin to me:

“When you make love who do you think of ? does he look like me?

When you’re alone do you let go? Are you wild and willing?

Or is it just for show?”

Much more explicit stuff.

I reported all of this to AA. Apparently it was a “personal matter” not something they could deal with.

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This is sickening. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and you were very brave to report it.

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god he's stupid!! he ruined one of my fav songs that i reflect to. literally wtf is wrong with this man?!?!

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Zoe Leonard is in love with a corpse.

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yes! she is. i wonder if she's behind the profile. there is also a fake twitter under his name: https://mobile.twitter.com/molinsten

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Zoe Leonard’s favourite song.

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btw someone made a fake facebook using Molin's picture (gosh he's so cringe there! you could literally see the cringe in him) and the picture of a vulcan bomber's cockpit as the cover photo: https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063226546708

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I don’t remember Molin looking like that. He must have been young there in that photo. I am not familiar with Vulcans but that plane doesn’t look operational.

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yeah. & it doesn't look operational

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oh god no!! ughhhh both Molin and her ruin it & everything else with their presence

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We went out as a crew on a few layovers for drinks before Sten Molin gave me a book, as a present, called “Z for Zachariah”. He told me to think of him as the character Loomis and “to see myself as Ann”. It was an eerie disturbing book where there is just Loomis and Ann left on the planet after a nuclear explosion. Loomis is an older man who tries to rape Ann who is underage. I read it and this guy isn’t right. He’s unstable. Why would any sane person give a book like that to someone?

Oh I forgot. After that the emails started. Oh and they were lovely detailed accounts of sex and how he wanted to have sex with you and what specific sex he wanted from you. I won’t share it because even from the grave he’d probably get off on it

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I'm sorry you had to go through that. That he treated you that way.

I agree with that last sentence.

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Anyone who wants to understand Sten Molin google “Power Reassurance Rapist” or Gentleman Rapist. You will find some good explanations of this type of psychology.

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The harrowing accounts here of the women he worked with. Sten Molin was a creep who forced himself onto women. He was a bully who sought revenge against those who tried to speak up against him.

I know he indecently assaulted, bullied and harassed several women. He spent evenings making sexually graphic phone calls to fellow workers.

He forced an open mouthed kiss on me in the crew rest area prior to takeoff. On a layover he entered my hotel room and forced me to have sex with him.

I received over 200 emails from Sten Molin. I received 70 text messages from him. Some people have told me these messages are romantic. Along the lines of “poor guy, you should have given him a chance…” I think not. I want to share some of what he said in sympathy with other women posting here. You are not alone.

I have blocked the worst of it.

“I know the taste and texture of melancholy”

“A burning wave of lust flows through my body when I think of you”

“My fingers want to find all those deep, dark places on you once again”

“The feeling of an ocean surging deep inside me when I ————- to you”

“Shivers in my stomach and c——“

“ Your hips and abdomen moving against my pelvis——-with a moan of ecstasy I woke up”

I told him to back off please and I wasn’t interested in further interaction with him. So then he got nasty.(This is brutal)

“ I saw you walking back to your hotel with that obsequious little worm ———-. You could do so much better.”

“ You deliberately frustrate and tease me. You knew I was alone in my room thinking about ———-you. Yet you were in yours with him. ———When you——-did you think of me?”

“You can ——, but remember I know your body intimately”

“ You will deny me———my unwanted desires towards you, but you will slum it with ———“

“ Everything I have said about you publicly and privately has been entirely sincere and true. And it remains so. It’s not a game. It’s what I actually think and feel.”

“It was the wording of all the above, deliciously brutal, that made me realise that I’d offended and hurt you, by my being so insensitive and daft and not having thought this through better (and thereby giving you the easier no you would have wanted)”

“The irony of it being so adept and succinctly penned by a woman whose skills I admire is not lost on me: indeed being the weirdo I am, I admired that even though I was devastated by what it meant you thought of me”

Yep definitely not creepy. Not creepy at all (sarcasm)

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Forced you to have sex=rape

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I wouldn’t say it was rape in the true meaning of that word, because I don’t want to undermine the experiences of true rape victims. Sten told me he was lonely and needed someone to talk to, so I let him into my room. He had a bottle of Vodka or was it Gin? I wasn’t really paying attention and got drunk. I can’t remember if he was drunk too? I did say no to him, I remember wanting him to leave my room. He was very persuasive. I remember saying I really don’t want to do this a number of times and then saying oh ok, and just basically passing out. So in the end there was actual consent but not entirely willingly.

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Hi Hannah, this information below is copied from the original piece i did about sexual assaults at American. I know it’s a lot to process no matter how liong ago it was, and it’s such a personal thing. You’re brave to share it at all. From the story: “According to The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, RAINN.org, 1–800–656–4673, 24/7, “Consent cannot be given by individuals who are underage, intoxicated or incapacitated by drugs or alcohol, or asleep or unconscious. If someone agrees to an activity under pressure of intimidation or threat, that isn’t considered consent because it was not given freely. Unequal power dynamics, such as engaging in sexual activity with an employee or student, also mean that consent cannot be freely given.”

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Rape.

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This is absolutely harrowing. This is some of the creepiest writing i've ever read; this, along with the emails other women have shared. What a profoundly disturbed man. I wonder how much his company knew about what he did to so many women on their watch.

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They knew they all fucking knew

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i removed your other comment because this person gets off on the attention, and I don't want to sink to their level.

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If your card won’t work on this site, support Sara Hammel by purchasing her book “The Strong Ones” through Amazon which is what I just did. I just got a confirmation from Amazon that payment went through so hopefully it all worked.

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Thanks for sharing that and buying the book Justine, it's much appreciated

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This site is declining Australian credit cards/bank cards. Patreon is a better way to raise funds to continue covering this serious issue. I just tried to pay for a subscription and my card was declined. I have sufficient funds as I just ordered from Uber Eats.

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Hi April, they don’t take debit cards, only credit cards. Thank you for trying though. I think most paid subscribers are from Oz :)

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I used a credit card.

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I want to also say I am using my real first name but a fake surname

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To add to the source material for the above bio, here is an interesting anecdote shared by a fellow civilian pilot (from: https://www.apfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/vol5_iss1.pdf):

* Captain Stephen Landau

Remembers Sten Molin*

Sten and I met during our inter-

views with American Airlines. We

were sitting in a room full of men

wearing the all-too-familiar blue

suit, red tie and shiny black shoes

outfit that was supposed to be our

ticket to an airline career. We were

two civilian pilots among a group

of fighter, bomber and transport

pilots straight out of the military –

not to mention several years their

junior.

I remember joking about it later

when we went to dinner together.

How were we supposed to get

hired with all of this competition,

and what was that guy in the

brown shoes thinking? Seriously,

we were both fortunate enough to

get hired, and coincidentally, only

a couple of days apart.

We will miss Sten, as well as the

entire crew of Flight 587. They

were part of our family here in

New York, and we will miss

them all. I wish them peace."

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“Room full of men”

Enough said

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yes! agreed

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holy crap! i read that too. little did Landau know that Sten Molin was a predator. Wishing flight 587 victims and sexual assault victims peace, except Molin. Molin was a liar. Telling whoppers, Secretly working for NORAD? becoming an astronaut, & flying Vulcan bombers for the RAF? wtf was he on drugs? this man was delusional. I wonder what kind of undiagnosed personality disorder he had.

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He wasn’t on drugs. He was someone who was incapable of feeling empathy or genuine love towards other human beings, particularly women. His desires were his priority.

If he wanted to have sex with you and you rejected him, that wasn’t an issue for him. He’d just rape you.

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He touched my boobs and butt. He made rude jokes and said stuff that made me really uncomfortable. That was it. OMG! He raped women. This is a wirlwind of information. Bless you all.

I had a pilot, not Molin, expose himself to me in a hotel corridor and ask me to suck him off. For me that was the most awful thing I experienced.

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oh my god this is so disgusting that this happened to you :( Molin was evil & disgusting. So was the other pilot. This is all sexual assault & I feel sad that this happened to you :(

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This guy worked for another carrier, and was drunk or high, so I just walked away. You really shouldn’t have to put up with this sort of behaviour right?

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Hi april,

i'm sorry you had to deal with that--and in the workplace! We have to work way too hard not to normalize this, because too many in power have worked hard to make it a "boys will be boys" offense rather than the harrassment and assault that it is.

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drunk or high doesn't excuse what happened! sexual assault is sexual assault. I'm sorry you had to deal with this. Just know that, at my airline (when I have enough capital to run it) I will be checking the pilots I hire, before and during their job, to make sure they don't sexually assault women & anybody else. They won't dare to do this at my airline, because it will be a man on their case. They wouldn't dare do it to another man because then they'd get their ass beat and their teeth knocked out. This goes for people like Molin. Its about doing your job & respecting others, and if you want to date, ok, set your boundaries, know their boundaries, make sure they're comfortable, find the right person & don't hurt anybody. I follow Ed States' example. He found & had his wife & kids & may he RIP. Molin could rot in hell. Also, its stupid to be drunk or high when you fly a plane & entrusted with 100s of lives aboard including your own. I never drink alcohol bc of that or do drugs at all.

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Jeez! something was really wrong with this dude then. A rapist & didn't care about anyone's feelings. He sounds like he was a sociopath with some traits of a psychopath. Could have also had antisocial personality disorder (as in, disregarding rules and people's boundaries , even if it meant him raping women)

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I didn’t know him that well. But people did know some of what he was up to and looked the other way.

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I understand. & yeah, its a blatant disregard for other's safety. I know how you feel because I was warning a girl about a guy she's STILL friends with, that he's a creep & a predator. She looked the other way and ignored me & behaved towards me as if I were the problem. I hate predators & their enablers. Their enablers are part of the problem. Molin is disgusting. I also heard he was socially immature and that he talked down to others in another pilot's account of Molin. Now I get exactly what they mean when Molin was "socially immature" no he was more than that! He was a predator!! Other accounts of him say he was outgoing, & "conscientious" well being a predator isn't conscientious at all!! If he was, he wouldn't have sexually assaulted & raped all these women!! He was a shit horrible person & a disgusting person!!!! He was evil! Why didn't they say that? He's dead but that doesn't change the fact that he raped and sexually assaulted women!!!!

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I am thinking “Socially immature” is a euphemism for getting Flight Attendants intoxicated to the point that they wouldn’t put up any resistance when he (Molin) assaulted them back at the hotel.

“Talked down to people” is a euphemism for making sexually charged jokes, designed to humiliate female colleagues.

Like another person commenting here says this is soft language, but it is the closest any pilot at the time would come to speaking the truth about Molin.

Apart from John Lavelle who was frank and open about Molin’s flying skills and was absolutely pilloried for it.

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Sten Molin raped me. I can’t say it any simpler than that. I used to use soft language, he was just “pushy” he was just “persistent”, that’s just what guys are like.

I said no to him and he ignored me. I said no multiple times. He ignored me. He went ahead and he did what he did anyway. I couldn’t control the situation because he was much larger than me. I think someone like that should not be a pilot flying commercial planes with hundreds of innocent passengers on board.

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I'm so sorry. I wish the entity that harbored and protected him would be held accountable for this, since he can't be.

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Very similar experience

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Sorry, Erin. Despicable.

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Sten Molin’s behaviour was malicious, vicious, self interested and crude, nasty, shameless, anti-social and unacceptable.

(((Also my credit card wasn’t accepted either. Kept getting a decline. I support other content providers on Patreon, never had this problem before.))))

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amen! exactly!!!! Molin is disgusting & he left behind nothing positive. Aside from finding out who he really was & how much of a predator he was (& still is, whether he's dead or alive- a predator is a predator) I see nothing more than just people who are traumatized victims of his predatory behavior. He has no legacy!!

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I got emails from Sten over a period of about a year, where he would describe in detail his sexual fantasies, then apologise, then promise not to contact me again. A week later there would be more emails from him and the cycle would start again.

Dear——

I am baring my heart to you. You have a face that will haunt me for the rest of my life. I have pursued you sexually with great determination. You continue to elude me. You might say I was outrageously aggressive in my pursuit of you. I desperately want to experience you passionately.

———describes sex acts

—-I want to run my tongue over———-the w-t friction of you, open stretched around my———-

(Me: Sten leave me alone)

It would be helpful in the future to ensure your comfort from now on if you could give me some idea of how to greet you next time we meet. I’d feel compelled to apologise again but you might not want that. You certainly might not want to hug for example. By default I’ll just smile and say Hi and ask about your welfare, unless you don’t even want that.

(It’s fine, goodbye Sten)

It really matters to me that you be respected and that I not cross boundaries I shouldn’t.

(Ok. So no more emails)

Your rejection is fine. I feel awful because I so clearly offended you in my approach. Your opinion of me matters. I paraphrase Elizabeth Bennet, I can’t bare the thought of her being in this world and thinking ill of me. Only I feel more like Mr Collins presently than Mr Darcy so the analogy is off.

(Me apology accepted no more emails)

My concern was your perception here, accurately described which stung.

—-which was wholly cryptic as to signalling interest, disinterest or neither. ( I said NO)

Also true as to my evidence as to failing to get that hint. It follows that I am de facto someone who would. Which is mortifying to realise, and yet another thing I have been apologising for.

Hence again you have accurately described the reality.

This is no way means I don’t care about whether I treat any women in my life with respect for their feelings and wishes, which is why the realisation of having harmed yours hurts.

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oh, to think he would have faced consequences for all of this. Yet no one listened or cared. I'm so sorry you had to go through this. Furthermore--and i do NOT want to make light of what he wrote--but the guy writes like a thesaurus and a bad romance novel got put through a meat grinder and this sh-t is what came out. Creepy, criminal, unacceptable.

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Based on the emails posted here that Molin sent, and those posted on Medium, I am wondering if anyone went through the legal system to seek a personal protection order against Molin? That would be perfectly legitimate. Those graphic and vulgar emails would be legitimate grounds legally for a protection order. Access to decent legal advise is everything here. I understand if you don’t have the money, you don’t have the avenues open to pursue legal recourse.

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