Sailing the seas is more dangerous than passengers realize, because more crimes take place aboard cruise ships that are not listed in the brochures and the cruise line does not advertise that there are sexual assaults. There have been so many sexual assaults and rapes aboard cruise ships that there was new legislation enacted to help protect the rights of these victims in holding their attacker and the cruise line accountable. One of the reasons for this is because the cruise ships are not registered in the United States, even if the company makes it seem like they are American.
That means the country that the ship is registered are the laws that the cruise ship will follow and these laws usually do not afford the passenger boarding in Los Angeles the type of legal protection they are protected by as an American citizen.
The Los Angeles ports are busy every day with ships that are leaving the ports and they do not have information available on the ships either about the dangers of being sexually assaulted. This leaves passengers to believe they can walk alone in areas of the ship that might not have other passengers, leave the nightly entertainment to walk back to the cabin alone and to be in passageways alone without realizing the dangers.
The cruise ship passenger would behave differently if they were warned about the dangers that can happen on this vacation that is supposed to be a magical and exciting trip on the ocean. Sailing the seas is more dangerous than passengers realize, they are not told of any danger and when there is a sexual assault or rape it is not treated in the same manner as it would be if it happened on land. The new legislation has made it mandatory that ship doctors must have rape kits and there are other measures to help this passenger.
The important thing the passenger that has been violated after leaving the port of Los Angeles on a cruise ship is to have the representation of a cruise ship rape attorney. It is important, since not all attorneys are knowledgeable about the laws for crimes that happened on the ocean and will be able to hold the cruise ship line accountable for their negligence in protecting the passenger.
Michael Ehline, is a Los Angeles car accident lawyer, and boat crash lawyer. If you need to speak with him, here is his contact info over at Ehline Law Firm PC. 633 West Fifth Street, 28th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071. 213.596.9642.