A 28 year-old man was arrested this previous weekend in Port Everglades on fees of raping a 20 year-old lady on the Freedom of the Seas, in line with native Information 10. On the time of the arrest, the Royal Caribbean cruise ship had simply returned to port in Fort Lauderdale from a seven day cruise to the Bahamas, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.
Juan Campos was booked into jail in Fort Lauderdale following the arrest. Campos’s prison protection lawyer informed the press that “it feels like they have been making out, it began going a bit of too far, when the woman mentioned ‘cease,’ when she verbally expressed ‘cease,’ he stopped.” The lawyer claimed that “it was a traditional cruise, he was with mates, they met some folks on board and subsequent factor , he’s charged with this crime.” The protection lawyer bizarrely claimed that the police report contained no reference to “power or violence” in any other case “they’d have charged it with power or utilizing violence.” After all, as we all know the crime of rape doesn’t require power or violence however solely an absence of consent. The arrest report indicated that the sufferer was allegedly penetrated with an unknown object in opposition to her will, stating “within the feeling of ache, the sufferer positioned her palms on the defendant’s shoulders, pushed him and informed him to cease and it hurts.”
The crime information reported by Royal Caribbean to the FBI pursuant to the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act signifies that there have been at the very least ten rapes and sexual assaults alleged on its ships throughout the first two quarters of this 12 months.
Sexual assaults, together with rape, are probably the most reported crimes on cruise ships.
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Picture credit score: Juan Campos, arrest report, and display seize – Native 10 Information; Freedom of the Seas – Past My Ken – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons wikimedia.
