A merchant navy cadet is suing...company failed to protect her from rape and sexual harassment...

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A merchant navy cadet is suing Maersk, saying the company failed to protect her from rape and sexual harassment on board one of its ships
https://news.yahoo.com/merchant-navy-cadet-suing-maersk-211137902.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_04

A merchant navy cadet, whose allegation that she was raped during at-sea training sparked an industry-wide reckoning, is suing Maersk, saying the shipping company failed to protect her from rampant abuse.

The cadet, Hope Hicks, says she was plied with alcohol and raped by a Maersk first engineer in 2019 while completing her mandatory at-sea training at the US Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), according to court documents seen by Insider.

Hicks told Insider: "It changed me completely ... it took me months, even a year or so, to even recover from everything that happened on that ship."

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In February, Maersk fired the first and second assistant engineers for not cooperating with its investigation. It also fired three others, including the captain, for violating its alcohol policies. Hicks has not named her alleged rapist, and it is unclear if the first assistant engineer who was fired is the same person as the first engineer accused in the lawsuit.

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2. KNR

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3. Additional info on the US Merchant Marine Academy and related events

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Merchant_Marine_Academy

The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA or Kings Point) is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen (as students at the academy are called) to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the United States Armed Forces and the transportation industry. Midshipmen are trained in different fields such as marine engineering, navigation, ship's administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.
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For portions of their sophomore (third-class) and junior (second-class) years, midshipmen serve as cadets on U.S. merchant ships. Midshipmen are typically assigned as pairs to a ship, an engineering cadet and a deck cadet, and operate as part of the crew, gaining hands-on experience as well as the opportunity to travel abroad to foreign ports; the average midshipman travels to eighteen countries during the three-hundred-day training period. This practical training results in an extended academic year that runs from late July to mid-June.

A second female, Midshipman-Y, has sued for assaults that occurred aboard the same ship.