Estes Carter Thompson III secretly filmed five underage girls while they used the bathroom on American Airlines flights where he worked as an attendant, prosecutors said.

Estes Carter Thompson III received a sentence of nearly two decades in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, prosecutors said.

A flight attendant accused of taping his cellphone to the lid of an airplane toilet to secretly film young girls was sentenced to just under 20 years in prison Wednesday.Former American Airlines flight attendant Estes Carter Thompson III received a sentence of 18.