Cruise Ship Sexual Assault and Rape Facts

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Cruise Ship Sexual Assault & Rape


The Facts

During the handling of the above cases, some facts admitted to by the shipping companies have emerged.

  1. A major cruise lines combined fleet has approximately 2 reports of sexual assaults or rapes per hundred thousand passengers. Statistically it should be kept in mind that these passengers are not on the vessel but for a short period of time, which makes comparison of these statistics to shore side sexual assaults and rapes difficult.
  2. A major cruise lines had reports of 99 sexual assaults or rapes in a five year period.
  3. Another major cruise line had reports of sexual assaults or rapes in the amount of 173 in a five year period. None of the 173 sexual assault or rape reports resulted in a single prosecution
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