Cruise Bruise Blog
March 20, 2009
March 20, 2009
Coral Princess Sexual Assault Witness Comes To Cruise Bruise With Info
A Cruise Bruise visitor alleges that he and his wife worked with Jorge Manuel Teixeira in the past, though they are now both working in New York City, and that Teixeira was a sexual predator as far back as five years ago.
Teixeira is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger on a recent Coral Princess cruise, was arrested after evidence at the scene confirmed Teixeira had sex in the dining room with the passenger. He is facing trial in Los Angeles.
The Cruise Bruise visitor outlines what he alleges is a long history of sexual predatory practices by Teixeira and other managers in the dining area aboard Princess ships.
I can't help but wonder how this has been going on for at least six years, and yet it has never come to the attention of Princess, until a passenger was sexually assaulted.
The Cruise Bruise visitors says:
" I used to be a junior waiter on the Dawn Princess in 2004 where Manuel used to be a head waiter, he invited several times my wife ( waitress in that time) to go to his cabin to visit him and that he would help her out during her contract in the dawn princess, my wife had told him that she was married to me and he said -"only as a side dish"- after she refused several times , we both my wife and I had the hardest time in work with the worst schedules up to 18 hours of work a day for refusing his offer.
Now we are both US residents and we wouldn't hesitate in being witnesses of his career as a sexual predator.
It is very sad that during our employment in Princess cruises every head waiter and maitre'd would harass every woman and men ( from gay head waiters) including my self as a victim ..."
If you are related to the victim in this case, have the victim's attorney contact Cruise Bruise in this case so we can pass along contact information for this witness.
March 20, 2009
Attorney Evicted From HAL Noordam Off Italy Has Harrowing Experience
I can't begin to imagine the thought process the doctor aboard the Holland America Line Noordam was having on September 26, 2008. The ship's doctor decided that forcing an elderly passenger and his wife off a ship in the middle to the night, into a rubber dingy, for a rough ride an hour long, only then to scale a 25 foot wall with all their luggage was something he needed to do because the passenger was in a medical emergency situation.
We have here Barry Allen, age 70, from Orange County, California who is suppose to be so sick he needs emergency medical care, and yet is well enough to climb a rickety ladder up a 25-foot seawall and then haul his luggage around to find a hotel.
According to Allen, he had developed a cold while on the ship, and saw the ship's doctor. They gave him an inhaler to help him breathe easier, which caused a reaction.
The ship's nurse gave him an antidote and he was then fine. But, the doctor and ship's captain decided after that, he needed emergency medical care, in spite of feeling fine, and the couple were told to prepare to leave the ship.
Their destination was Calabria, Italy, a city the ship's passengers had been warned about by officers aboard the Noordam. Officers said the town was crime ridden and very dangerous.
So, of course, the proper thing to do was to shove the couple into a rubber boat, out a tiny door in the belly of the ship, into pitch darkness. The couple then was to arrive on the sands of the crime-ridden town beach with all their belongings in tow, in the middle of the night.
Italian seawall, the only way over is by climbing a ladder
The Allens spoke no Italian and the three-man-crew of the rubber boat spoke no English.
The couple managed to haul themselves and their luggage to a hotel, book a flight home, missing the bulk of their cruise, without getting medical care in Italy, nor upon arriving home, because as Allen said, "he was feeling fine".
Adding insult to injury, their travel insurance did not cover any of their losses or expenses.
The bottom line is this. If the ship's doctor thought Barry Allen was well enough to bounce in the seas for an hour, make a sandy beach landing, scale a 25-foot ladder to go over a seawall, then scurry down the other side, only to lug their luggage around town to a hotel, was he really too sick to stay on the ship? He doesn't think so.
