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...Smith drank absinthe, which may cause hallucinations, a few hours before he vanished in the Mediterranean; a giant bloodstain was found below his balcony; some of his drinking buddies, who deny any wrongdoing, got kicked off the boat a few days later after a female passenger accused them of rape...
...controls the witnesses, controls the evidence," says Miami attorney James Walker, who represented Kelly. "It's all being filtered through the company's risk-management department." Court documents seen by TIME back up that contention. In one case, a passenger who was examined on board for evidence of gang rape sued the cruise line after ship security, by allowing housekeeping to repeatedly steam-clean the carpet, failed to preserve the alleged crime scene. In another case, a passenger accused of sexual assault testified that a ship security officer coached him to state that "no sex was performed by anyone." Cruise...
...Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection last month to "shore up any perceived deficiencies in reporting." At the same time, FBI assistant director Chris Swecker says he is considering development of a program to train cruise-industry security chiefs to improve evidence collection by using such tools as rape kits and blood tests for date-rape drugs...
...hypocritical it just blows my mind,? Planned Parenthood?s Looby counters. ?They understand that this is a problem for the public, so they had to come up with a way to get around that and this is their attempt to do so.? The majority of rape victims, she notes, are victims of date rape, and the majority of incest victims are quite young. ?They don?t present themselves at a hospital or doctor?s office to ask for contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy,? she says. ?So I think it?s very disingenuous of him to suggest this is an exception...
...even if rape victims do get themselves to a hospital for treatment, she adds, it may not do any good. ?We?ve introduced a bill requiring emergency room doctors to tell assault victims about emergency contraception-they?re not required to provide it, just to tell patients about it-and that bill has repeatedly failed in the South Dakota Legislature.? South Dakota was among the earliest states to allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense Plan B, the ?morning-after pill,? if doing so violated their conscience...