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 Seaside Submit. 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 Seaside Submit explains that final Might throughout a cruise to the Bahamas, Jane Doe awoke to the bartender sexually assaulting her in her cabin. She instructed FBI brokers that she demanded he depart their cabin, however he moved to her touring companion’s mattress and started to assault her. Doe reported it to cruise ship safety the next morning. The Submit reviews that in response to court docket data, investigators discovered the “girls’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 in opposition to the cruise line alleges that bartender Hoobesh Dookhy (now in federal jail) pocketed one of many two girls’s cabin keys whereas serving the ladies drinks and used it to enter after each girls 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 instructed the FBI that he had been consuming whereas working.
(Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line was rebranded as Margaritaville at Sea firm).
In keeping with the Palm Seaside Submit, this sufferer “joins a protracted checklist of passengers and crew members who say they had been victimized aboard cruise ships. Greater than 500 sexual-assault reviews had been documented between 2010 and 2022 on 13 main cruise strains, in response to knowledge 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 business disclosed the quite a few rapes which occurred on cruise ships for the previous 12 months (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 girls 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 consists of reporting crimes on cruise ships, refusing to reveal the 100 rapes or so throughout cruises final 12 months?
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Picture Credit score: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Common Photos Group / Getty by way of the Day by day Beast; Washington Submit – Bartender on Margaritaville cruise pleads responsible to intercourse crime at sea.
