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Cruise ship waiter jailed for sex assault on teenager
7:00am Monday 12th November 2007
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A CRUISE ship waiter has been jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old passenger in the Mediterranean.
Cajetan Fernandes, 30, befriended the girl while he waited on her family's table during a trip on the Southampton registered P&O ship Aurora.
Southampton Crown Court heard how Fernandes had persuaded the girl to follow him while she was waiting for a friend outside the restaurant one evening.
Prosecutor James Kellam said he led her around the ship to a toilet cubicle, locked the door and sexually assaulted her.
Mr Kellam said the girl described her ordeal as "feeling horrible" and talking about it as "acutely embarrassing".
The girl eventually confided in a friend she met on the cruise ship who persuaded her to talk to a youth worker.
Fernandes was arrested when the liner docked in Southampton.
Megan Toplis, for Fernandes, said he was a man of good character who had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.
Fernandes, an Indian from Mumbai, had worked on cruise ships for nine years and there had "never been a problem or question as to his integrity", she said.
Miss Toplis said Fernandes had not used force, nor used coercion or made threats to the girl.
He had "lost sight of rights and wrongs", she said. "He's shown genuine remorse and is extremely sorry for what he's done." She said he had received no visitors while in custody and had been too ashamed to let his family know what he had done.
Fernandes sobbed and clutched a crucifix close to his chest as the judge sentenced him to 15 months. He declined to make a recommendation for deportation.
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Hiram Hackenbacker, Tracey Island says...
8:49am Mon 12 Nov 07
Denzil, Romsey says...
10:14am Mon 12 Nov 07
tut tut, here there says...
10:16am Mon 12 Nov 07
Tamara, Whiteley says...
10:22am Mon 12 Nov 07
Fernandes was in a position of authority (by being an employee) and acted innapropriately and has been dealt with sufficiently.
Hiram Hackenbacker, Tracey Island says...
10:26am Mon 12 Nov 07
tut tut wrote:They don't like comments that might prejudice a Court case.
echo your pulling comments off the post board when these are the comments of the public?! freedom of speech and all that!
Oh wait, the case is closed so it can't be that.
Wayne King, On The Ocean Wave says...
11:00am Mon 12 Nov 07
Hiram Hackenbacker, Tracey Island says...
11:12am Mon 12 Nov 07
Wayne King wrote:As in "waiter are those your flies in my soup?".
You should see what he put in the soup!
united front, soton says...
11:19am Mon 12 Nov 07
SICK OF LIVING IN A SPINELESS BRITAIN!!
BRING BACK CHURCHILL AND BRING OUR PRIDE BACK!!!
United dunce, says...
11:34am Mon 12 Nov 07
united front wrote:Churchill is deaed you prat! How would you propose to bring him back?
WE'LL SLAG OFF A MINOR ISSUSE WHEN A BRIT'S INVOLVED BUT WHEN FORIENGERS ARE PART OF THE STORY WE HAVE TO TREAD CAREFULLY AS USUALLY! SICK OF LIVING IN A SPINELESS BRITAIN!! BRING BACK CHURCHILL AND BRING OUR PRIDE BACK!!!
Would this form part of your policy to put a spine into Britain?
You dickhead.
Wayne King, Steerage says...
11:34am Mon 12 Nov 07
Hiram Hackenbacker wrote:Or....
Wayne King wrote:As in "waiter are those your flies in my soup?".
You should see what he put in the soup!
Customer :- Waiter, why is your thumb in my soup?
Waiter :- To keep it warm sir.
Customer :- Well stick it up your a*se then!
Waiter ;- I do that in the kitchen sir
united front, soton says...
11:41am Mon 12 Nov 07
United dunce wrote:BIG MAN BEHIND A COMPUTER SCREEN THEN (AGAIN)
united front wrote: WE'LL SLAG OFF A MINOR ISSUSE WHEN A BRIT'S INVOLVED BUT WHEN FORIENGERS ARE PART OF THE STORY WE HAVE TO TREAD CAREFULLY AS USUALLY! SICK OF LIVING IN A SPINELESS BRITAIN!! BRING BACK CHURCHILL AND BRING OUR PRIDE BACK!!!Churchill is deaed you prat! How would you propose to bring him back? Would this form part of your policy to put a spine into Britain? You dickhead.
FIGURE OF SPEECH YOU MIS-FIT... IF YOU NEED YOUR MUM TO EXPLAIN THINGS EVERYTIME JUST GIVE UP FROM THE START. WASTER .
BRING BACK A LTTILE SOLIDARITY AND PRIDE NOT DEAD PEOPLE. HOPE THATS SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR YOU, GET BACK IN YA PRAM.
YOU ACTUALLY GOT A WORTHWILE COMMENT OR YOU GONNA PLAY THE BIG MAN TODAY?
United dunce, says...
12:00pm Mon 12 Nov 07
The phrase mis-fit would certainly not apply to me (look a litle closer to home).
If you really want to improve the state of this country you should start with the single biggest scourge on our modern society today - The British youth poorly educated, aggressive, low moral fibre nd socially inept. Feed your nationalistic nonsense to them, they sound the perfect audience for an idiot ike you.
Not a big man hiding behind his computer, just a well adjusted adult tired of reading the drivel you continually spout.
Margot Gethergun, says...
2:15pm Mon 12 Nov 07
her indoors, eastleigh says...
9:56pm Mon 12 Nov 07
Robert, says...
12:18am Tue 13 Nov 07
sandra, vancouver says...
6:50pm Sun 18 Nov 07
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