Cruise ship companies are failing sexual assault victims, lawsuits seen by Business Insider show.
Carnival told the Washington Post last year that the alleged assailant was fired from the cruise line but that he was never charged.
"The truth is, cruise companies don't know much about the employees they hire," he told BI.
"I don't know how they sleep at night, I really don't"Jamie Barnett, from the organization International Cruise Victims (ICV), told BI that the behavior of cruise companies makes victims feel "lost and very isolated."
Cruise companies, she said, "will fight tooth and nail before they would roll over and not do what they needed to do, to keep the public from knowing."
Persons:
—, Ryan, Patrick Connolly, Ross Klein, They'll, they'll, Klein, they've, Justin Sullivan, Jane Doe, Jim Walker, Walker, Jamie Barnett, Barnett, Democratic Sen, Richard Blumenthal
Organizations:
Business, Service, MSC, MSC Cruises, MSC Meraviglia, Orlando Sentinel, Tribune, Getty, BI, US Department of Transportation, Disney Cruise Line, Disney Cruise, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Cruise, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Vessel Security, Safety, FBI, Princess Cruises, BuzzFeed, Carnival, Washington Post, International Cruise, Democratic
Locations:
Port Canaveral, Port of Oakland, California, Caribbean, Miami, Key West , Florida