Morning Roundup: The too-friendly skies edition

Good morning, Houston. Up to now, we thought one of the worst things that could happen during an airplane trip would be sitting next to Victoria Osteen, but it turns out things could be worse: You could end up sitting next to a guy who ejaculates in your hair. That's what reportedly happened to a 21-year-old Harris County woman on a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last spring — the woman claims she slept for most of the flight, but awoke as the plane was descending into L.A. and noticed that a man had moved into the seat next to her and was masturbating. Embarrassed, she turned to the window and ran her fingers through her hair, and that's when she had the There's Something About Mary moment. Unfortunate, yes, but the woman isn't willing to leave it at that: Last week, she filed suit against American Airlines for $200,000, claiming that the airline's employees failed to "police the passengers to ensure that passengers do not hurt one another." No word on why she isn't suing the man who, uh, did the deed.

>> Surgeon testifies in case of microwaved baby: Anna Murphy, the baby whose father is accused of putting her in a Galveston hotel microwave last year, suffered such severe burns that she lost most of her left ear and may not be able to use her left hand, a burn surgeon testified Monday in the trial of the father, Joshua Mauldin. The Chronicle reports that Dr. Art Sanford of Shriners Burns Hospital explained that Anna — who was 2 months old when the microwave incident occurred — will likely never have use of her left ring finger because the tissue was so badly burned; in fact, he added, the tendons of her left hand were damaged to the extent that the hand was left "pretty well devastated." Sam Cammack III, Mauldin's attorney, argued that it couldn't be proved that Anna's injuries were the result of being burned in a microwave, suggesting instead that they were caused by someone spilling hot liquid on her. Mauldin has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of injury to a child.

>> A lesson learned?: Well, this is odd: According to KPRC, a Sugar Land woman claims a local middle school assistant principal was peeping at her two daughters through the miniblinds on their bedroom window. Jon Jeffrey Jones, who was the assistant principal of Garcia Middle School until he resigned Friday, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with disorderly conduct; Sugar Land police Capt. Gary Cox said Jones "indicated that he had watched a woman there, at the house, get dressed." The woman, though, said he couldn't have been watching her: She dresses an hour before a neighbor said he saw Jones lurking outside her house at 6 a.m. Instead, the woman said she believes Jones was checking out her 7- and 11-year-old daughters. "I was violated, but especially my children," she told Channel 2. "They're innocent. They're young. They're in elementary school."

>> Today's weather: In a nutshell, windy and rainy. We'll have a high around 71, with potentially strong storms and winds up to 30 mph. The good news: The storms will pass late tonight, leaving us with a perfect end to the week.

>> In brief: Police: Texans' Jones was asleep at the wheel when arrested for DWI ... Supreme Court denies appeal of city's SOB ordinance ... Local Jews on alert after threats ... Body dumped in Fifth Ward was that of ex-Bellaire football star ... Obama's controversial preacher coming to Houston