MIAMI, FL— October 4, 2011 – Upon analyzing FBI data and sexual assault reports on three major cruise lines, researchers concluded that individuals are more vulnerable to sex crimes aboard cruise ships than they are on land in Canada. Study leaders Dr. Jill Poulston, the Auckland University of Technology (AUT)…
MIAMI, FL— August 18, 2011 – In yet another case of horror on the high seas, a 19-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl during a vacation aboard a Carnival cruise ship in March. According to information provided by Alabama Live, Dylan Cole Bloodsworth, of Mississippi, pleaded guilty…
MIAMI, FL—July 26, 2011 – Pittsburgh prosecutors offered a plea agreement on July 20, 2011 to a 72-year-old man who boarded a Royal Caribbean cruise ship with the intention of engaging in illicit sexual activity with children in 2009. According to information provided by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, prosecutors evidently offered…
MIAMI, FL—July 19, 2011 – A Los Angeles man who confessed to beating his wife to death during a cruise ship vacation two years ago faces life in prison, as well as a $250,000 fine for the horrific offence. According to information provided by NBC San Diego, Robert McGill, of…
MIAMI, FL— June 29, 2011 – An American man who was accused of having unlawful sexual relations with at least eight impoverished Haitian children at the residential center that he set up in the Caribbean nation’s capital of Port-au-Prince pleaded not guilty to four counts of child sex tourism on June 23,…
MIAMI, FL— June 2 2011 – Claiming that Carnival Cruise Lines failed to consider the potential dangers faced by travelers venturing around the island of St. Thomas, where there has been an upsurge of violence over the last few years, the family of a cruise ship passenger who was shot…