Cruise staff ‘watched 12 gang-rapists plying booze to “obviously drunk” girl before she was brutally attacked in cabin’
stood by and did nothing as the 15-year-old victim was plied with drinks — even though sexual assaults were known to be rampant on cruise ships.Credit: Getty Images - Getty
The men were said to have steered the girl to a cabin where they brutally assaulted and gang raped her.said: “She alleges that everything happened in view of multiple Royal Caribbean crew members, including those responsible for monitoring the ship’s security cameras. The complaint alleges that “as a direct and proximate result” of Royal Caribbean’s negligence and failures, including to warn of the increased risk of sex attacks on-board, K.T. was “directly and proximately caused to be sexually assaulted and/or physically battered and/or gang raped”.Cruise passengers are also at higher risk of crime and injury on-board due to the “copious quantities” of alcohol on-board, according to the lawsuit, but little is done to protect them.
“A cruise ship is like a floating city of 10,000 people with no police,” said Philip Gerson, a lawyer who testified before US Congress on behalf of a teen who was raped by two men in 2014.Lawyer Philip Gerson, on the perils of cruises
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