Police in Cayman Islands Investigating Sexual Assault of Cruise Ship Passenger
A newspaper in the Cayman Islands is reporting that the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service is investigating a reported sexual attack on a female cruise ship passenger.
The incident happened on Friday July 27, 2012 according to the local police in the Cayman Islands. The newspaper account is very vague. The newspaper states only that the incident involved a female cruise passenger "in the George Town area" that led to the arrest of a 43 year old man on August 18, 2012 on suspicion of attempted rape. No charges have been filed and the suspect was reportedly released on bail.
The newspaper states that the incident "was not proactively reported by the police service."
The newspaper did not identify the name of the cruise line or the cruise ship. This is quite common in the Cayman Islands and other Caribbean countries which do not wish to cause embarrassment to the cruise lines which call on their ports.
If anyone knows which cruise ships were in the Cayman Islands on July 27, 2012 please leave a comment below.
Jim Walker is a maritime lawyer who has attended seven Congressional hearing on issues of cruise ship crime, passenger disappearances,
Cayman News Service reported this story on Tuesday and also stated the only ship in port that day was Carnival Legend.
http://caymannewsservice.com/crime/2012/09/11/visitor-sexually-assaulted