Areas of Practice
Cruise Ship Sexual Assault & Rape
- Introduction
- Overview
- The Law
- The Real World
- What To Do If You Are A Victim
- Actual Cases Handled By This Firm
- Sample Court Exhibits
- The Facts
- In The News
- On National Television
- Cruise Rape Victims / TV Interviews
- Letters from Lawmakers on Cruise Crime
- Kimberly Dean Edwards
- Royal Caribbean sexual assault statistics
The Real World
Although there is criminal jurisdiction over sexual assaults and rapes on vessels; as a practical matter, very little happens from a criminal law enforcement point of view. That only leaves civil actions for money damages as a means to obtain any justice. In a case being handled by this firm, we discovered that out of 174 complaints of sexual assault or rape on a major cruise line's vessels during a 4 year period, not one person had been prosecuted nor convicted.
