Although security cameras reveal a crew member of the Disney Dream cruise ship molesting a young girl in an elevator, the crime was not reported by until the next day.
Disney Cruise Line at first claimed last week it did report the crime while the ship was still in port on Aug. 5. Then, after being told by Local 6 and Port Canaveral police that was not true, the cruise line changed its account, Local 6 reports.
Company officials then claimed employees did not know until the next day that a crime was committed. All they knew on Aug. 5, they claim, was that the child was made to feel “uncomfortable,” according to statements by the cruise line to both Local 6 and the Port Canaveral police.
Suspect Milton Braganza, of India, who was questioned by Bahamian police when the Disney Dream docked there, initially denied touching the young girl, but later said, he “touched her on her right breast with my left hand,” according to a statement, nydailynews.com reported.
But investigators lost their chance to pursue Braganza, as when the Disney Cruise Line returned to Port Canaveral on August 10, Disney had already put Braganza on a plane to India, nydailynews.com also reported.
Read more about the Disney Cruise Line mess-up here.
