Posted on 06/04/2015 7:44:40 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A female guest who was raped, brutally beaten and strangled unconscious on a Holland America ship by a crew member is suing the cruise company.
A civil lawsuit was filed on Friday in a Seattle district court on behalf of Jane Doe who was almost thrown overboard by her rapist during the fight for her life on Valentine's Day last year on MS Nieuw Amsterdam. Room service attendant Ketut Pujayasa used his company-issued, master key to enter the cabin of Jane Doe, then 31, where he was able to lurk on her balcony for several hours until she returned.
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I remember the days when these cruise ships were referred to as “love boats”. Times have really changed.
Seems to happen a lot on these ships with dodgy crewmen. My mum almost had this happen to her at 14 when she was on a ship to Germany. This is probably what happened to that woman who went missing on that Disney cruise to. Its the perfect place for a sexual predator to victimise somebody and then dispose of the evidence.
Hopefully he will look the same after some prison justice.
H.A. passengers are mostly white, but their crews are all thirdworlders. This one sounds Indo- or Malaysian which means muzzie with a muzzie’s attitude about women.
He’s an Indonesian citizen.
What’s the predominant religion in Indonesia, again?
Cruise ships now employ a LARGE contingent of “immigrant” labor. They laborers are stuck on the ships for months at a time and their backgrounds are often sketchy or non-existent. You pays your money, you takes your changes.
Words almost fail me.....
The cruise lines prefer third world trash for the more menial jobs.
It would not surprise me that this Indonesian macho man is a Muslim.
Yeah...you got it .
Wow, pics at the link are horrific. Thing most people don’t realize is when your on one of those ships your not in the US anymore. Most crew members are foreign and many don’t even speak English. Can’t believe this guy thought he was gonna be able to get away with it.
Anyone that does this kind of thing should NEVER have the chance to be in civilized society again. Personally, I’d like to see him executed because his intention was to kill her and it’s only a miracle she didn’t die.
Are there not dead-man latches like in hotels?
I went on a cruise last year. Anecdotal evidence is that there were no Americans working on the ship. Most appeared to be from Eastern European countries or the Philippines.
Are Americans even allowed to apply for jobs on a cruise ship? This is a serious question. The cruise I was on went from Seattle to ports of call in Alaska. It was hard to believe that a cruise from one part of America to another had no Americans on the crew.
Where did obama spend his formative years, again?
You have to dig pretty deep to find out this was a nude cruise and the perp claimed the victim ‘insulted’ him.
That and other details are just too creepy.
I guess it would not have helped since he entered the room while she was out.
I realize a cruise ship is relatively safe, except for your old drunks and horny cougars.
But one security guard on duty on a vessel that large?
Seriously...
We had a guy at work that was an avid scuba diver. He'd worked for us for a couple of years when he went on a cruise during his vacation. About a week after he left, we got an email from him tendering his resignation and saying he'd accepted a job with the cruise line as a scuba instructor, effective immediately.
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