We have blogged regularly about the danger of children being sexually abused on cruises, particularly aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ships. In our experience, if your child is going to be sexually abused during a cruise – the chances are likely it will occur on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.
Here’s the latest example.
Last December, Sherwood Stevenson
TIME Magazine just published an article entitled Cruise Ship Port Call: Gauging Crime on the Bahamas.
Time addresses the November 2009 armed robbery of cruise ship passengers during Segway shore excursions in Nassau, Bahamas. Cruise Law News was the first one in the U.S. to report on the robbery in our article – 18 Passengers From Royal Caribbean &
The Orlando Sentinel reports today that a thirty year old Carnival crew member will be arraigned this week on allegations that he raped a 14 year old passenger aboard a Carnival’s cruise ship.
Hery Krispiyanto, age 30, from Klitren, Yogykarta (Indonesia) worked aboard Carnival’s Freedom as a bartender. A photograph from his Friendster page is below.
Another crew employee was caught trying to enter Canada from a cruise ship with child pornography.
The Chronicle Herald in Canada published an article today entitled "Cruise Ship Waiter Caught With Child Pornography." The newspaper reports that Canada Border Services Agency officer arrested an assistant waiter on the Costa Atlantica on Tuesday as he
This is reason no. 4 in the series:Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise
The primary reason our law firm is in business is because cruise lines mistreat cruise passengers after they have been seriously injured or victimized aboard a cruise ship.
Over 99% of our clients have never filed a lawsuit before, and probably over 50% of our clients
The Vancouver Observer published an interesting article today which addressed, as the newspaper called it, the "moral dilemmas associated with cruise tourism."
The article was entitled the "Cost of Cruising," by Dr. Ross Klein. In addition to addressing the effects of cruise pollution, it raised the issue of crime aboard cruise ship – particularly sexual
Cruise Critic ran an article last week about the Top 10 Reasons Not To Cruise When Cruise Critic claimed "Cruise Ships are Family Friendly" and posted the photographs from a Royal Caribbean teen center (below), I had heard and seen enough. I responded with my article "Top Ten Reasons Not To Cruise."
Here’s reason
The U.S. Department of State has issued a warning of dangers while traveling to the Bahamas, including sexual assaults on cruise ships in the port in Nassau:
"CRIME: The Bahamas has a high crime rate . . . the U.S. Embassy has received reports of assaults, including sexual assaults, in diverse areas such as in casinos, outside hotels
A newspaper in Rochester, New York reported yesterday that a passenger was indicted for sexually abusing a thirteen year old girl during a cruise back in December of 2006. The passenger is alleged to have threatened to throw the child overboard if she called for help.
Twenty-four year old Lucas George Wickes (photo left), of Rochester, New York, was indicted for
Today I read a travel agency’s twitter feed "Safety for Children on Cruise Ships." I am interested in this issue after representing 60 clients sexually assaulted on cruise ships, including children.
I was hoping to see some good safety tips in the article to keep children safe. Boy was I disappointed. Not only were there no useful
Yesterday, U.S. Customs and Border Protective Services arrested a rape suspect who had flown to Miami to go on a Carnival cruise aboard the Destiny.
The Georgetown Times newspaper reports that 32-year-old Tyrone Green has been on the run for two years after he allegedly brutally attacked and raped a 77-year-old woman in her home
Last night, a member of the one of the leading online cruise communities – CruiseCritic – contacted me about a cruise line passenger who had been harassed and battered by a cabin attendant in 
her cabin. This was far from a rape, but it certainly sounds like something other than a "cultural misunderstanding."
Some of the CruiseCritic members supported the passenger and made some
On Thursday, a Los Angeles Federal Court jury acquitted a headwaiter working for Princess Cruises of sexually assaulting a woman passenger during a cruise on the Coral Princess.
A woman from Kansas City accused Princess Cruises crew member Jorge Manuel Teixeira (from Portugal) of sexually assaulting her during a cruise last March between Fort Lauderdale and Los Angeles, while the ship was at sea
The success of the Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act of 2009 (HR 3360) can be traced directly to Congresswoman Doris Matsui of Sacramento California.
Congresswoman Matsui’s constituent, Laurie Dishman, called upon her three and one-half years ago after Ms. Dishman was a victim of a crime on a cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean Cruises.
We have discussed
The House of Representatives passed the Cruise Vessel Security & Safety Act (HR 3360) today. This cruise bill was previously part of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2009, but was voted on today as a ‘stand alone" bill to speed up its enactment.
Congress approved the bill by a resounding vote of 416 to 4.
A number of "All Star"
The Daily Breeze newspaper reports that the criminal trial has begun in Los Angeles of a Princess Cruises headwaiter who is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger from Kansas City.
Coral Princess Head Waiter – Sexual Predator or Family Man?
Princess crew member Jorge Manuel Teixeira, 39, from Portugal, is charged in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles
From time to time, Cruise Law News will have a guest blogger. Caitlin Burke is our first guest author. Ms. Burke is a recent graduate from the University of Florida. She majored in Recreation, Parks and Sport Management. Ms. Burke wrote a senior honor’s thesis entitled a "Qualitative Study of Victimization and Legal Issues Relevant to Cruise
The Virginia Pilot newspaper reports that a passenger was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for downloading child pornography.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested passenger Timothy David Webb, 32, after he disembarked Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship 
Grandeur of the Seas at the Norfolk cruise ship terminal. Webb is a convicted sex offender and has a conviction in
