A passenger aboard the Margaritaville At Sea’s Paradise cruise ship alleges {that a} crew member snuck into her passenger cabin and assaulted her whereas asleep, in response to the Palm Seashore Publish. She is suing the cruise line utilizing the alias “Jane Doe.” Final August, the Miami New Instances, amongst different shops, reported that the identical crew member sexually assaulted Jane Doe’s touring companion in the identical cabin. See, Cruise Bartender Accused of Sexually Assaulting Sleeping Passenger in Stateroom.
The Palm Seashore Publish explains that final Could throughout a cruise to the Bahamas, Jane Doe awoke to the bartender sexually assaulting her in her cabin. She informed FBI brokers that she demanded he go away their cabin, however he moved to her touring companion’s mattress and commenced to assault her. Doe reported it to cruise ship safety the next morning. The Publish stories that in response to courtroom data, investigators discovered the “ladies’s room key within the pocket of (the crew member’s) work vest” and a photograph he took of her touring companion, “bare and asleep,” on his cellphone.
The cruise passenger alleges that she turned pregnant on account of the rape. Her lawsuit towards the cruise line alleges that bartender Hoobesh Dookhy (now in federal jail) pocketed one of many two ladies’s cabin keys whereas serving the ladies drinks and used it to enter after each ladies fell asleep.
The bartender in query is serving time in federal jail after he pled responsible to abusive sexual contact for sexually assaulting Jane Doe’s touring companion.
In his interview with FBI brokers, the crew member informed the FBI that he had been consuming whereas working.
(Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line was rebranded as Margaritaville at Sea firm).
Based on the Palm Seashore Publish, this sufferer “joins a protracted checklist of passengers and crew members who say they have been victimized aboard cruise ships. Greater than 500 sexual-assault stories have been documented between 2010 and 2022 on 13 main cruise strains, in response to information revealed by the U.S. Division of Transportation. (DOT)”
Sadly, the DOT has not disclosed a single crime on a cruise ship since 2022. Neither the DOT nor the cruise trade disclosed the quite a few rapes which occurred on cruise ships for the previous yr (2023) as required by the Cruise Vessel Safety & Security Act (CVSSA) of 2010. In 2022 alone, the DOT reported that there have been over 100 ladies raped throughout cruises.
This raises the query: What’s worse? A cruise visitor being sexually assaulted on a cruise ship, or an company of the U.S. federal authorities, whose job contains reporting crimes on cruise ships, refusing to reveal the 100 rapes or so throughout cruises final yr?
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