AN Australian model was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to community service and probation for slapping a flight attendant and going on an obscene tirade during a flight, with a federal judge saying he believed she was deeply remorseful and did not deserve fines or prison time.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced Adau Mornyang to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service.

Prosecutors had sought a month in jail for Mornyang. But Carney said he believed she was truly sorry after she tearfully read a statement in court saying she is now receiving treatment for anxiety and depression brought on by childhood trauma, instead of self-medicating like she did at the time of the flight.

“I’ve learned to deal with my emotions and trauma in a proper way,” Mornyang said as she stood crying with her arm around her lawyer, her usually long hair cropped to a short flattop.

The incident, she said, has “pushed me to have proper medical treatment.”

She talked about the humiliation of hearing the recording of herself during the trial.

(SD-Agencies)