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every single cruise that leaves the port of miami, port everglades, cape canaveral, port canaveral here in the state of florida has a minimum of one perpetrator, whether it be passenger or crew on board its vessel each week. reporter: jacques is a former ships security officer. he now investigates on-board crimes for victims and lawyers who may want to file civil lawsuits. he says there is no doubt cruise ships have become magnets for predators who feel safe at sea, far from police jurisdictions. and given the nature of cruises, with lots of alcohol, parent who is leave children unattended, the predator passengers and, yes, predator crew members, he says, feel they can get away with with almost anything. yes, this is true, the there are a considerable amount of male perpetrators out there that are passengers and crew that get on board these vessels with the only one thing in mind, and that is to accost as many female passengers as they can. whether by getting ....
board. every single cruise that leaves the port of miami, port ever. grades, port canaveral, here in florida, has a minimum of one perpetrator, weather it be passenger or crew, onboard its vessel each wake. reporter: jacques is a former ships security officer. he now investigates on-board crimes for victims and lawyers who may want to file civil lawsuits. he says there is no doubt cruise ships have become magnets for predators who feel safe at sea, far from police jurisdictions. given the nature of cruises with lots of alcohol, parents who leave children unattended, the predator passengers and, yes, predator crew members, he says, feel they can get away with almost anything. yes, this is true. there are a considerable amount of male perpetrators out there that are passengers and crew that get onboard these vessels with the only one thing in mind, and that is to accost as many female passengers as they can. whether by getting them overly intoxicated or by using d ....
reporter: up on deck, her mother says the girl s demeanor instantly changed. she was clingy. never left her side for the rest of the cruise. it wasn t till two months later the secret broke. do you feel the person who attacked you, that this was the first time he attacked anybody? no, because the way he did it, he walked in like he already knew what he was doing. reporter: do you feel he was a predator? yes. reporter: randy jakes has a very strong opinion about the likelihood of criminals on board. every single cruise that leaves the port of miami, port everglades, cape canaveral, port canaveral here in the state of florida has a minimum of one perpetrator, whether it be passenger or crew on board its vessel each week. reporter: jacques is a former ships security officer. he now investigates on-board crimes for victims and lawyers who may want to file civil lawsuits. he says there is no doubt cruise ships have become magnets for predators who feel safe at ....
a family spending new years rounding the volcanic wide island off new zealand s coast. january 1, 2010. this girl, then 15, decided to spend the morning alone in her cabin. and the trip of a lifetime turned to terror as her locked door to cabin 3073 suddenly clicked. i didn t hear the card key go in, but i did, hear, like the door open, and, like, the lock like yeah. and i thought it was my brother or sister at first. and then when i saw the guy come in, i didn t recognize the bartender uniform. i just it was someone working on the ship so i thought it was a room attendant that was going to clean my room because i didn t put the sign like, oh, don t disturb or whatever. reporter: it wasn t a room attendant. it was a crew member. in a bartender uniform. threatening the girl not to say a word as he forced the teen to perform oral sex. at her family s request, we are not showing her face. you were 15. yeah. reporter: scared. you didn t tell you family. no. i ....
he s investigating tonight 37 we re going to try to figure out what is killing so many of these young kids. first, a story you will not see anywhere else. an experience taking an ocean cruise you probably think is safe. it may not be. at least not always. we re not talking about something going wrong with the ship. this is a story, a 360 exclusive, about crime at sea, about how much more common it is than you may realize and how little protection the victims may have from it and in the end how little justice some may be getting. more now from drew griffin. reporter: it was the cruise of a lifetime. a family spending new years rounding the volcanic wide island off new zealand s coast. january 1, 2010. this girl, then 15, decided to spend the morning alone in her cabin. and the trip of a lifetime turned to terror as her locked door to cabin 3073 suddenly clicked. i didn t hear the card key go in but i did hear like the door open and like the lock like and i though ....