Miami-Dade cops arrested a cruise passenger from Indianapolis, Indiana final Friday on costs that he molested a teenage woman on a latest Carnival cruise, in line with Miami’s native 10 Information.
Police arrested Jason LeFavour, age 44, when the Carnival Conquest returned to PortMiami, on a cost of “lewd and lascivious molestation of a kid.”
The Carnival Conquest operates quick (three or 4 day) cruises to the Bahamas.
The native information stations report that LeFavour grabbed the “left buttocks” of the woman “along with his hand” as he walked previous the 13-year-old youngster on a decrease deck “simply earlier than 9 p.m. Thursday.” Throughout an interview with police, LeFavour informed detectives “he didn’t keep in mind his actions on the time of the incident attributable to him being intoxicated.”
As I’ve reported quite a few occasions, Carnival Cruise Line’s sexual assault fee is larger on a per capita foundation than twenty-seven of the fifty states within the U.S. One-third of sexual assaults on cruise ships are dedicated in opposition to youngsters. A lot of the violence on Carnival cruise ships is because of the uncontrolled alcohol which this cruise line serves on its twenty-six cruise ships. This case is an instance of precisely that.
The lucky factor about cruises departing from the state of Florida is that by statute, native legislation enforcement officers in Miami (Miami-Dade Police), Fort Lauderdale (Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace) and different legislation enforcements in port cities in Florida have jurisdiction to research crimes on cruise ships which name on Florida ports. State prosecutors even have authority to carry felony costs in opposition to passengers and/or crew members, primarily based on the outcomes of the investigation of native legislation enforcement officers. In all states different apart from Florida, solely the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has authority to research crimes which happen on cruise ships. Sadly, the FBI is commonly reluctant to research crimes reminiscent of drunken bar fights and molestation of kids which happen all too typically on Carnival cruise ships.
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Picture credit score: Carnival Conquest – NormanEinstein wikipedia / commons 3.0; Jason LeFavour – Native Information 10 (Miami).
