Honeymoon economist ‘groped student on flight home’

A newlywed accused of groping a dozing student as he flew back from his honeymoon in Hawaii told a court: ‘I cannot imagine I did anything like that.’ Robert Van Den Bergh, 37, allegedly slipped his hand beneath a blanket to deliberately stroke the passenger’s thigh as he sat next to her in economy class during the United Airlines flight. The economics student had taken two sleeping pills and Van Den Bergh allegedly joked that the pills could make her…