A 28 year-old man was arrested this previous weekend in Port Everglades on fees of raping a 20 year-old girl on the Freedom of the Seas, in keeping with local News 10. On the time of the arrest, the Royal Caribbean cruise ship had simply returned to port in Fort Lauderdale from a seven day cruise to the Bahamas, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.
Juan Campos was booked into jail in Fort Lauderdale following the arrest. Campos’s prison protection lawyer instructed the press that “it seems like they had been making out, it began going a bit too far, when the girl mentioned ‘cease,’ when she verbally expressed ‘cease,’ he stopped.” The lawyer claimed that “it was a standard cruise, he was with buddies, they met some folks on board and subsequent factor you already know, he’s charged with this crime.” The protection lawyer bizarrely claimed that the police report contained no reference to “pressure or violence” in any other case “they might have charged it with pressure or utilizing violence.” After all, as everyone knows, the crime of rape doesn’t require pressure or violence however solely an absence of consent. The arrest report indicated that the sufferer was allegedly penetrated with an unknown object towards her will, stating “within the feeling of ache, the sufferer positioned her fingers on the defendant’s shoulders, pushed him and instructed him to cease and it hurts.”
The crime knowledge reported by Royal Caribbean to the FBI pursuant to the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act signifies that there have been not less than ten rapes and sexual assaults alleged on its ships through the first two quarters of this yr.
Sexual assaults, together with rape, are essentially the most reported crimes on cruise ships.
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Picture credit score: Juan Campos, arrest report, and display screen seize – Native 10 Information; Freedom of the Seas – Beyond My Ken – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons wikimedia.
September 4, 2024 Replace:
The Miami Herald incorporates extra data (“At one level, Campos was on prime of her and unbuttoned her shorts, the report states. He then penetrated her with one thing towards her will, deputies say. The lady tried pushing Campos off of her, even telling that ‘it hurts’ and to ‘cease,’ in keeping with the report. Campos, nonetheless, continued and tried to show her over to sexually assault her however was unable to take action, deputies added.”) in addition to a denial by Campos’ protection lawyer (“Campos’ lawyer, Ed Hoeg, mentioned in an e-mail to the Herald that his consumer just isn’t responsible, and there are witnesses who will dispute the alleged sufferer’s model of occasions.”)
