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Tonight, the CNN Anderson Cooper AC360 program aired a short documentary into the issue of the safety of children on the high seas, entitled "Safe at Sea."
The program focuses on a fifteen year old girl sailing with her family on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in 2010. While her parents and siblings were at
The Tampa Bay Times reports that yesterday a former Norwegian Cruise Lines crew member formally pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. Earlier this month, the crew member agreed to make this plea.
The case involves former NCL Assistant Cruise Director Senad Djedovic, age 29, from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Djedovic engaged in sexual relations with a 16 year
The Tampa Bay Times reports that a former assistant NCL Cruise Director, last employed aboard the Norwegian Star cruise ship, who had sex in a stairwell with a 16 year old passenger, agreed to plead guilty today to possessing child pornography.
NCL employee Senad Djedovic, met the minor girl from Minnesota on a cruise which departed
Today, Frommer’s travel website published an article "Best Cruise Ships For Kids."
When I saw the title, I thought to myself: oh no, not Frommer’s. The Frommer’s people didn’t include any of the Cunard cruise ships on its "best for kids" list did it? I prayed not. I held my breath and clicked on
Yesterday, we reported on the case of Cunard cruise youth supervisor Paul Trotter who was arrested in February after police in England were tipped off that his home computer contained indecent images of children. When the police seized his computer, they realized that Trotter had filmed himself sexually abusing the children on the cruise ships.
Newspapers in the U.K. are reporting that a former child supervisor who worked on Cunard cruise ships admitted to the police that he sexually abused children on cruise ships.
Two months ago we reported on the arrest of Paul Trotter, who worked on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Victoria cruise ships.
A Royal Caribbean crew member has pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of a 14 year old girl during a Caribbean cruise.
25 year old Fabian Palmer admitted engaging in sexual relations with the girl during a cruise from Baltimore in December 2010.
Crew member Palmer was employed by Royal Caribbean as a pool attendant
Earlier this week, we reported on the arrest of former Cunard child supervisor Paul Trotter on allegations that he abused a child and possessed indecent photographs of children on his computer.
The British police investigated Mr. Trotter (photo below, playing piano on Cunard cruise ship) after the parents of a child, identified only as being
Several news stations in the U.K. are reporting that the police arrested a former Cunard crewmember on charges that he sexually molested at least one child during a cruise.
Paul Trotter, age 34, of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, in the U.K., is alleged to have abused the child between December 20, 2011 and January 5, 2012 while working
The Mail Online in the U.K. reports tonight that a crewmember who worked aboard two of the world’s most luxurious cruise ships is being investigated by police on suspicions that he sexually assaulted children during the cruises.
The newspaper reports that the Cunard crew member who allegedly carried out his indecent conduct worked for Cunard for over five years on Cunard’s flagship, the
A news blog in Alabama, al.com, reports tonight that a Gautier, Mississippi man dubbed a “serial rapist” by prosecutors will serve 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl during a cruise aboard a Carnival cruise ship.
The case involves Dylan Cole Bloodsworth who was accused of raping the young passenger while
One of the purposes of this blog is to educate the public of dangers of cruising and the legal hurdles passengers face when things go wrong during a cruise.
One of the first issues I felt compelled to write about when I started this blog over two years ago was the Death On The High Seas Act ("DOHSA"). DOSHA
ABC Nightline has posted the video of its program last night regarding the sexual assault of a 14 year old girl on the Carnival Freedom cruise ship. Carnival crew member Hery Krispiyanto raped the child during a cruise in 2009.
http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf
Tonight, ABC’s Nightline will cover the story of a 14 year old child who was sexually assaulted by a Carnival crew member aboard the Freedom cruise ship.
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This is a story which we covered last May:
Carnival Cruise Ship Bartender Arrested On Charges Of Raping 14 Year Old Passenger
Hery Krispiyanto, age 30, from Klitren, Yogykarta
Several newspapers in California are reporting that the FBI arrested a crew member aboard Celebrity Cruises’ Constellation on child-pornography charges after the cruise ship arrived at the Port of San Diego.
According to the Union Tribune newspaper in San Diego, Amado Nicholas Hernandez, age 31, was employed by Celebrity Cruises as an audiovisual manager and provided onboard guest-entertainment services.
A Christmas cruise ended in tragedy when a three year old girl from Holland America Line’s Zuiderdam cruise ship reportedly drowned in HAL’s private destination Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas. The incident occurred on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, according to a newspaper in the Bahamas.
On September 7th, Canada Border Services Agency officers nabbed crew member Edward Brillantes Mangubat after they searched his laptop computer and found sexually explicit movies featuring children.
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Mangubat worked as a stagehand on Cunard’s cruise ship Queen Mary 2. The Chronicle Herald reports that he had worked on cruise ships for seven years.
Today, Mangubat pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
The Chronicle Herald in Canada reports today that a crew member on a Carnival cruise ship which that visited Halifax was arrested and charged with smuggling child pornography into Canada.
The newspaper indicates that 26-year-old crew member Nyoman Putra, an Indonesian working as an assistant room steward on the Carnival Glory, allegedly had child pornography on a
