Tycoon’s sex with teen in private plane
AIRCRAFT PUT ON AUTOPILOT DURING ROMPS
A MILLIONAIRE faces jail after engaging in sexual acts with an underage teen on his private plane while it was on autopilot.
Stephen Mell, 53, was introduced to the 15-year-old girl by her own mother, who wanted her daughter to take flying lessons.
Father-of-three Mell began chatting with the girl in 2017 – exchanging text messages and SnapChat photos – before eventually arranging to meet up at his £3million mansion in Bedminster, New Jersey.
He “performed oral sex acts” on the girl on June 20 and then again several weeks later after sending her a message that said: “Miss you so much.”
The two of them would often discuss having sex and using birth control, with Mell allegedly buying an emergency contraceptive pill. Nervous
He told the girl in one text: “If you are nervous it will hurt more. When you are turned on is when it will feel ok.”
The two of them would meet up weeks later for their private flight when they flew to Barnstable, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod “for the purpose of engaging in illicit conduct, specifically, a sexual act”.
It was on the flight back that Mell – an active community member who did volunteer work for a number of charities – put the aircraft into autopilot mode.
He and the teenage girl communicated throughout the summer of 2017 and up until that November, when the last correspondence was documented.
He begged her in another text: “Send me a nice naked pic cute thing.”
His wife divorced him after the relationship was revealed.
Mell, who pleaded guilty last year to engaging in interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, as well as child pornography, is due to appear in court next week for sentencing.