Local ABC News Station 10 experiences {that a} 51-year-old man faces a lewd and lascivious conduct cost “after being accused of kissing a 5-year-old woman on the mouth whereas on a cruise over the weekend.”
Miami-Dade police arrested Ernest Richard Bishop, Jr., of Morning View, Kentucky, on Monday, after the Carnival Dawn returned to Miami on October 3, 2022 after leaving the port of Miami on September twenty ninth for a four-day cruise to Key West and Cozumel, Mexico.
ABC Information 10 experiences 51 year-old #cruise pax arrested on lewd & lascivious expenses after “kissing a 5 year-old woman on the mouth” whereas on @CarnivalCruise Carnival Dawn https://t.co/lpVGMz2R4y Miami-Dade Police arrested Ernest Richard Bishop, Jr. when ship returned to Miami.
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) October 4, 2022
In line with an arrest report, the native information station reported that the kid’s father witnessed Bishop kiss his daughter whereas the Carnival cruise ship was at sea on Saturday evening, October 1st.
The report states that Bishop refused to talk with Miami-Dade police after they escorted him to jail.
Information Station 10 experiences that Bishop submitted a $7,500 bond.
The Carnival Dawn was previously named the Carnival Triumph. It’s a comparatively outdated cruise ship in-built 1999.
Sexual misconduct is the primary crime reported on cruise ships, in line with knowledge maintained by the Division of Transportation (DOT). Cruise strains are legally required to report sexual assaults in addition to sure different crimes which happen on their ships pursuant to the 2010 Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act. Up to now, the cruise ship crime knowledge was maintained by the DOT and available on an internet portal. Sadly, the DOT stopped reporting the info in April of 2021 because the cruise business struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic.
When the DOT was nonetheless reporting about legal sexual acts on cruise ships earlier than COVID-19 shut the business down, there have been fifty-three (53) rapes on Carnival Cruise Line ships reported from January 2019 by March 31, 2020. Throughout the identical time interval, there have been thirty-three (33) rapes on Royal Caribbean operated cruise ships and seventeen (17) sexual assaults on NCL ships. Most such alleged intercourse crimes on cruises go un-prosecuted.
Carnival Cruise Line leads the cruise business with probably the most experiences of sexual assaults. The cruise line has a per capita price of almost 40 (39.6) per 100,000.
The per capita price of sexual assaults on Carnival ships of 40 per 100,000 is important. It’s a larger per capita price than twenty states, together with California, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Georgia (and over a dozen different states). See, Carnival Cruise Line Leads Cruise Industry with the Most Sexual Assaults.
Usually, solely the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has jurisdiction to analyze crimes involving U.S. residents on cruise ships. The exception is when a cruise ship departs and returns to a port in Florida. In such conditions, both the FBI or Florida state/native regulation enforcements officers can assert jurisdiction when a U.S. citizen is the sufferer or perpetrator. Florida is the one state the place native police can assert jurisdiction over crimes at sea. If this Carnival ship had left from a U.S. port aside from in Florida, solely the FBI would have had jurisdiction. It’s extremely unlikely that the FBI would have concerned itself in making the arrest of this passenger.
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Supply: Local ABC News Station Channel 10; Pictures; Carnival Triumph/Dawn – Scott Lucht – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia.
