Posted on 01/28/2024 11:03:49 AM PST by george76
The number of reported rapes and sexual assaults on cruises hit a new high in 2023...
There were 131 reported incidents in 2023 compared to 87 in 2022 ...
But the actual number of incidents is likely much higher... Nationally, two out of three sexual assaults go unreported,
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Earlier this month, MSC Cruises was sued for two alleged sex crimes on separate ships. One lawsuit alleged a crew member raped a passenger, and the other accused the cruise line of failing to protect an underage / 6-year-old girl from being molested .
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Jack Hickey .. cruise companies generally do everything they can to hide crimes, especially sex crimes.
“The cruise lines are concerned about their images. It’s supposed to be a vacation. It’s supposed to be a positive experience,” Hickey said. “They want as little about sex assaults to come to light as possible.”
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Sex crimes far outpace other reported crimes, which included 22 assaults with “serious bodily harm,” two suspicious deaths and 20 thefts of $10,000 or more in 2023.
Since 2010, there have been about 500 reported sex assaults and rapes
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That number is just a fraction of the actual number..
The Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act doesn’t require cruises to report crimes against non-U.S. citizens, and there’s a narrow definition of rape that cruise line management companies use to “significantly” underreport incidents
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Added trauma for survivors trapped on boat with attacker Rape on a cruise compounds trauma for survivors because they’re trapped on a ship with their attacker until the next port..
And even then, the survivor needs to have the resources and wherewithal to get off the vessel and fly back home, he said, and they don’t know where their attacker is, especially if the attacker is an employee.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They don’t call it “Da Love Boat” for nothing. All that Boink! Boink! Boink! isn’t from playing basketball.
Is it just “rape” or is it “rape rape”?
How many are on homo cruises?
How many are people hooking up in cruise ship bars, boinking, and one party later screams “rape”?
Are there ANY forcible rapes?
If you put 5000 people together for any significant amount of time - human nature dictates bad things are statistically guaranteed to happen, particularly in relation to the amount of time the group are together.
I don’t see how this on the fault of cruise lines, except for the nature of cruise-vacations dictate people are in close proximity, in an “entertainment environment” for an extended period.
Those are very low numbers considering the millions that go on cruises every year.
I’m always surprised at what happens on cruise ships (suicides and whatnot) that somehow isn’t caught on surveillance cameras.
International waters. Who’s in charge? The security folks who work for the company.
Add the 3rd world employees who are young, horny, and don’t respect women. What could go wrong? Just cruise with 2 baggers I say.
Not a problem on Celebrity Cruises. You just have to be on one to know why. The average guy on a Celebrity Cruise is fantasizing more about the blueberry cheese cakes than he is about women.
I skimmed it and missed the 6 year old. Agreed he should go for a swim.
“Cruise ship rapes and sexual assaults hit record high in 2023”
I don’t know of a SINGLE REPORT of a Cruise Ship raping or even sexually assaulting anyone.
that new cruise ship has ‘Eight Neighborhoods’ for 7600 passengers.
Will some neighborhoods be safer than others?
Except the cruise ships aren't "American".
Wait’ll they book passage on Icon of the Seas...
If I was retired, adequately funded and bored, I’d find great pleasure in hunting rapists aboard a cruise ship...
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