Miami-Dade cops arrested a cruise passenger from Indianapolis, Indiana man final Friday on prices that he molested a teenage woman on a latest Carnival cruise, based on Miami’s local 10 News.
Police arrested Jason LeFavour, age 44, when the Carnival Conquest returned to PortMiami, on a cost of “lewd and lascivious molestation of a kid.”
The Carnival Conquest operates brief (three or 4 day) cruises to the Bahamas.
The native information stations report that LeFavour grabbed the “left buttocks” of the woman “together with his hand” as he walked previous the 13-year-old little one on a decrease deck “simply earlier than 9 p.m. Thursday.” Throughout an interview with police, LeFavour informed detectives “he didn’t keep in mind his actions on the time of the incident as a consequence of him being intoxicated.”
As I’ve reported quite a few instances, Carnival Cruise Line’s sexual assault rate is higher on a per capita basis than twenty-seven of the fifty states within the U.S. One-third of sexual assaults on cruise ships are committed against children. A lot of the violence on Carnival cruise ships is as a result of uncontrolled alcohol which this cruise line serves on its twenty-six cruise ships. This case is an instance of precisely that.
The lucky factor concerning the state of Florida is that by statute, native regulation enforcement officers in Miami (Miami-Dade Police), Fort Lauderdale (Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace) and different regulation enforcements in port cities in Florida have jurisdiction to research crimes on cruise ships which name on Florida ports. State prosecutors even have authority to deliver legal prices in opposition to passengers and/or crew members, primarily based on the outcomes of the investigation of native regulation enforcement officers. In all different states different aside from Florida, solely the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has authority to research crimes which happen on cruise ships. Sadly, the FBI is usually reluctant to research crimes akin to drunken bar fights and molestation of kids which happen all too typically on Carnival cruise ships.
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Picture credit score: Carnival Conquest – NormanEinstein wikipedia / commons 3.0; Jason LeFavour – Local News 10 (Miami).
