(DAILY MAIL) A Carnival Cruise Lines employee has been arrested and faces charges of sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl who was on vacation with her family.
Kert Clyde Jordan, 35 from Grenada, works as a waiter on the Miami-based Carnival Liberty. He was charged with engaging in a sexual act with a person under the age of 16.
A statement from the United States Attorney’s Office claimed Jordan engaged in sexual acts with the girl while the ship was in international waters on November 4 and 5. He is accusing of coaxing the girl into a bathroom on the Lido deck.
The girl waited until she and her parents were returning home to tell them of the alleged attack, police said.
Carnival has been cooperative in the investigation, the Sun Sentinel reported.
Carnival has a zero tolerance policy from crime and we take any allegations of crime extremely serious,’ the cruise line said in a statement.
Jordan was arrested Saturday and made an initial court appearance Monday. As of Tuesday night, he remained in federal prison.
A pre-trial hearing is set for December 1 in Miami.
The Liberty sails from The Port of Miami to the eastern and western Caribbean, with routes passing through San Juan, St Maarten, Cozumel, and Grand Cayman.
This isn’t the first case of underage sexual assault seen by Carnival Cruise Lines in recent memory. Only ten days ago, an Alabama man was sentenced to ten years in prison for raping a 13-year-old girl on-board a Carnival cruise in Mexico.
According to court records, Dylan Cole Bloodsworth, 19, met the girl when she too was on a holiday cruise with her family in March.
Bloodsworth talked her into accompanying him to get a jacket from his cabin and raped her, according to U.S. Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria Murphy.
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