Jun 14, 2022·edited Jun 14, 2022Liked by Sara Hammel
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!!
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.
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?
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
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.
Jun 12, 2022·edited Jun 12, 2022Liked by Sara Hammel
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)
Sara, I got your book “Famous Last Words” through Kindle Unlimited. I am enjoying it. The celebrity anecdotes are interesting too. I always liked Ben Affleck as an actor and lol he was doing push ups at camp to impress the ladies.
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.
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.
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.
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.))))
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.
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!!
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.
CZL a ruthless cruel bitch who went through men at American like anything in trousers.
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?
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.
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
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.
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)
Sara, I got your book “Famous Last Words” through Kindle Unlimited. I am enjoying it. The celebrity anecdotes are interesting too. I always liked Ben Affleck as an actor and lol he was doing push ups at camp to impress the ladies.
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.
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.
I want to also say I am using my real first name but a fake surname
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."
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.
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.))))
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.