Cajetan Fernandes
Date: November 12, 2007
Cruise Bruise: Sexual Assault Conviction
Bruise Location: Mediterranean
Age: 30
Home Town: Mumbai, India
Cruise Line: P & O Cruises
Ship: Aurora
Details:
Another pervert lacking self-control, moral and ethical standards had his day in court, where he plead guilty to sexually assaulting a young, female, cruise ship passenger on a cruise ship, where he worked as her family's waiter.
The family was cruising in the Mediterranean aboard the P & O Aurora when the incident took place. Court records show that Cajetan Fernandes, a citizen of Mumbai, India worked as a cruise ship diningroom waiter during the time he lured the girl into a restoom where he sexually assaulted her.
The girl, only 14 when the assault took place said that she had been waiting for another passenger outside the diningroom when the waiter stop to talk to her.
Southampton Crown Court heard Prosecutor James Kellam tell how Fernandes had persuaded the girl to follow him while she was waiting for a friend outside the restaurant one evening. She followed him to another area of the ship under false pretenses, and then was pulled into a restroom, where the assault took place after Fernandes locked the door.
The girl was so distressed over the event, she told a friend aboard the ship, and as a result decided to go to a youth counselor. Fernandes was confronted about the allegations while on the ship then was arrested when the vessel docked in Southampton.
Fernandes was sentenced to 15 months in a British prison for the sexual assault, small consolation to the family of this girl.
His lawyer says that Fernandes has received no visitors while in custody and had been too ashamed to let his family know what he had done. Then came Cruise Bruise. Shame for the sex offender needs to be more significant than it was for the victim.
He also claimed it was the first time he sexually assaulted a child on a cruise ship. You, the cruise ship passenger have 15 months to prove this is correct, before he slithers back to India and no further charges can be pressed.
Cajetan Fernandes
Crew Member Sexually Assaults Child
P & O Cruises Aurora - November 12 2007
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