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http://www.rebecca-coriam.com/
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Have You Seen Rebecca?
Rebecca Coriam was last seen just before dawn on the 22nd March 2011, where she worked on the Disney Cruise Liner. The alarm was raised when she did not report for work at 09.00 hrs. The crew searched the ship... find out more »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Wonder
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In 2011, the Disney Dream took over these itineraries and Wonder was repositioned to the Pacific Coast. On March 22, 2011 while on a Mexican Riviera cruise, a Disney Wonder cast member, 24 year old Rebecca Coriam, went missing from the ship.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/11/rebecca-coriam-lost-at-seahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Wonder
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In 2011, the Disney Dream took over these itineraries and Wonder was repositioned to the Pacific Coast. On March 22, 2011 while on a Mexican Riviera cruise, a Disney Wonder cast member, 24 year old Rebecca Coriam, went missing from the ship.
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The Disney Wonder, from which Rebecca Coriam (right, top) vanished in March. All her parents Mike and Ann have been told is that the investigation is 'still ongoing'. Photographs: AP; Chris Thomond (2)
The Port of Los Angeles, 23 October 2011. At the Goofy Pool on deck 9 of the Disney Wonder, the Adventures Away celebration party has begun. "Goodbye, stress!" the cruise director shouts. "Hello, vacation!" The ship's horn sounds out When You Wish Upon A Star, to indicate that we're about to set sail, to Mexico. It's a nice touch. The ship has just won the 2010 Condé Nast Traveller crew and service award.
I'm standing on deck 10, looking down at the dancing crowds of guests and crew. There are 2,455 passengers this week, and 1,000 employees. You can spot the Youth Activities team in their yellow tops and blue trousers. They look after the children in the Oceaneers' Club on deck 5.There's no talk of it, but many people on board know something terrible occurred on this route – to Puerto Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas – earlier this year. At 5.45am on Tuesday 22 March, a CCTV camera captured a young woman on the phone in the crew quarters. Her name was Rebecca Coriam. She was 24, from Chester, and had recently graduated from a sports science degree at Exeter University. She'd been working in Youth Activities on board for nine months, and apparently loved it. But on the phone she was looking upset.
"You see this young boy walk up to her to ask her if she's all right," her father Mike told me a few weeks ago, sitting in the family's back garden in Chester. "She said, 'Yeah, fine.' Then she put the phone down. She turned around. She had her hands in her back pockets, which she always did. Then she put her hands to her head like this, pushing her hair back…" Mike did the movement. It looked normal. "And then she walked off."
And that's the last anyone has seen of her. She just vanished.
When she didn't report for work at 9am, the crew Tannoyed her. They searched the ship and called the Mexican coastguard, who searched the waters, all to no avail. That was seven months ago.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Lynn_Bradley
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In 1999 an American sailor reported that he went to a brothel on Curaçao and was approached by a young woman. She told him her name was Amy Bradley and asked for his help. At this point, two men in the bar escorted her upstairs. Unfortunately, by the time the witness reported this to police several months later, the brothel had burned down.
She was also potentially spotted in 2005, when a witness claimed she was seen in a department store restroom in Barbados.[2]
An image of a young woman resembling Amy that was emailed to her parents was shown on the Dr. Phil show, and it suggests that she may have been sold into sexual slavery.
There is a $250,000 reward for information leading to Amy's return.
In January 2011, CNN Justice raised speculation that a jawbone found in Aruba might belong to Bradley.
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1) My mother, on a spending whim, had decided to take me on a mother-daughter vacation before I began the eighth grade. We went on a Disney cruise off the coast of Florida, a family vacation tailored to entertain the interests of both adults and children. I was teetering on the edge of adolesence, learning about my new sexuality, beginning to realize that I was evolving away from girlhood. There was a shopping trip before we left — a long black dress, earrings, heels — the purchase of clothes that made me feel adult and, dare I say it? sexy.
2) In the future, I hope things will be better for people who have experienced the things I have. Anyone who says that the feminist movement has nothing left to address hasn’t heard our stories because they haven’t been listening.
It’s that simple. They have been blaming, shaming, doubting. But they haven’t been listening.
Culture Jamming - "SAY NO TO DISNEY SWEATSHOPS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBSIQmgKXR4&feature=related
http://www.cruiselawnews.com/2011/02/articles/sexual-assault-of-minors/passenger-sentenced-to-jail-for-sexually-assaulting-girl-on-disney-cruise-ship/
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Passenger Sentenced to Jail for Sexually Assaulting Girl on Disney Cruise Ship
Posted on February 12, 2011 by Jim Walker
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1A passenger from New York has finally been imprisoned for sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl on the Disney Wonder cruise ship.
A year ago we reported on this crime - Passenger Indicted for Sexual Abuse of 13 Year Old Girl on Disney Wonder Cruise Ship.
The girl's family sailed on the Disney Wonder in December 2006. On New Year's Day January 2007, after the girl attended a program at the cruise ship's teen club with other girls, twenty-four year old Lucas George Wickes approached them and ordered them to return to their rooms. He told the girl to follow him because he was a security officer with the cruise ship. When they reached an area where no other people were around, he then assaulted the girl.
A federal district court sentenced Wickes to 46 months in prison and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $2,667.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/31/grace.coldcase.bradley/index.html
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Ten people have vanished while vacationing in the Caribbean in the last 15 years, according to the Aruba Missing Persons website. One of them was Amy Lynn Bradley, then 23, who disappeared 12 years ago while on a vacation cruise with her family.
Bradley and her mother, father and younger brother were on board the cruise ship "Rhapsody of the Seas." The ship had just left Oranjestad, Aruba, and was heading to Curacao, in the Netherlands Antilles, on the day she went missing -- March 24, 1998.
http://www.fbi.gov/buffalo/press-releases/2011/bffo021111.htm
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Rochester Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Abusive Sexual Contact on High Seas Case
| U.S. Attorney’s Office February 11, 2011 |
ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Lucas George Wickes, 25, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced to 46 months in prison and order to pay restitution in the amount of $2,667 by U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer for abusive sexual contact on the high seas.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who handled the case, stated that the defendant admitted that on January 1, 2007, while on board the Disney "Wonder" departing from Port Canaveral, Florida to the Caribbean, he knowingly engaged in sexual contact with a 13-year-old minor by placing the minor in fear that she would be subjected to serious bodily injury.
The minor and her family boarded the Disney Cruise ship "Wonder" at Port Canaveral, Florida on December 31, 2006. That evening, the minor went to the ship's teen club with some other minors she had met. After the club closed, the minor and her companions were approached by Wickes, who ordered them to return to their rooms. The defendant told the victim to follow him and she did, believing him to be a security officer with the cruise ship. After the defendant led her to the rear of the ship to a location where no other people were around, he knowingly engaged in sexual contact with the minor.
The sentence was the culmination of an investigation on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James Robertson.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/cruise-ship-crime-teen-speaks-alleged-rape/story?id=12945292
Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who handled the case, stated that the defendant admitted that on January 1, 2007, while on board the Disney "Wonder" departing from Port Canaveral, Florida to the Caribbean, he knowingly engaged in sexual contact with a 13-year-old minor by placing the minor in fear that she would be subjected to serious bodily injury.
The minor and her family boarded the Disney Cruise ship "Wonder" at Port Canaveral, Florida on December 31, 2006. That evening, the minor went to the ship's teen club with some other minors she had met. After the club closed, the minor and her companions were approached by Wickes, who ordered them to return to their rooms. The defendant told the victim to follow him and she did, believing him to be a security officer with the cruise ship. After the defendant led her to the rear of the ship to a location where no other people were around, he knowingly engaged in sexual contact with the minor.
The sentence was the culmination of an investigation on the part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James Robertson.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/cruise-ship-crime-teen-speaks-alleged-rape/story?id=12945292
When Darla and Enoch, who asked that their last names not be used, took their then 14-year-old daughter on an eight-day Caribbean cruise, the family never expected their dream vacation would turn into a nightmare.
After having trouble falling asleep one night during their 2009 Carnival cruise, Taylor said she left her parents' cabin and went alone to an upper deck of the ship "Freedom" to write in her journal.
It was there, she said, that Heri Krispiyanto, a 30-year-old Carnival cruise line employee from Indonesia who waited on the family during meals, found her and then raped her.
http://www.cruiserape.com/jamiesstory.php
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My interview on ABC's Primetime
Airdate: April 14, 2006
My Interview on Inside Edition: Cruise Rape Victims
My Interview on A Current Affair: A Crime at Sea
Author's Note: Writing this article was extremely difficult for me to write as I have never before revealed the intimate details of my rape. I am only writing this article to let other victims know that you can survive the effects of rape and that there is hope for your future.
My name is Jamie. I was born March 1, 1987 in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska where I lived until 1998. I was eleven at the time. My family and I were about to embark on an adventure of a lifetime: traveling through the United States, Canada and parts of Mexico in a motorhome and then culminating our travels by purchasing and living on a sailboat. We packed up everything that could fit into our 32 foot motorhome. There were five of us: my brother, sister, my parents and me...and of course my best friend also was going with us. His name was Shadow. He was four at the time, half chocolate lab and half Newfoundland. For the next seven months we traveled the country seeing the sights and enjoying home school.
When our motorhome trip finally came to an end, we were literally across the country in Tampa Bay, Florida. As a grand finale to our travels before moving into our new sailboat, my parents decided we should all go on a cruise. Unfortunately, Shadow had to stay on shore while we went on the cruise, and then he had to return to Anchorage and live with our relatives since it would be too hard for him to live on a boat.
On May23, 1999, the five of us climbed the long ramp onto the cruise ship where we would be spending the next seven days making unforgettable memories and seeing things most people only dream about. We were going on a cruise around the Caribbean! It truly was a dream come true, or so we thought.
On the ship, there were several activities arranged for certain age groups. Kids up to twelve did "kid stuff" and those who were thirteen and older were in the teen group. I had just turned twelve a few months earlier, but I didn't want to be in the kid group so we got permission for me to be with the older kids. We did all kinds of things like dancing, swimming, and playing ping pong tournaments. It was so much fun! I really liked not feeling like I was being babysat and my parents felt at ease about what we were doing. It was almost like a camp knowing that we would be safe and supervised.
On May 27, 1999, five days into the cruise, the teen group went ............
http://www.cruiseshiprapes.com/
http://www.cruiseshiprapes.com/Sexual_Assaults/cruise_ship_sexual_assaults_minor_children_4.html
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A 14-year-old girl from Tennessee reported a sexual assault by a waiter during her cruise aboard Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Liberty on November 4, 2011.
The Carnival Liberty left on Saturday October 29, 2011 from Miami, Florida for a Halloween At Sea party voyage. Carnival Liberty called at Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas on Sunday spending Halloween at Sea on Monday. Tuesday, Liberty arrived at St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin islands before calling at San Juan, Puerto Rico then Grand Turk on Thursday. Friday November 4, Liberty was at sea, heading back to Miami, where she arrived on Saturday morning around 0800 hours.
This has the sexual assault taking place on the last night of the cruise, the most popular night on all cruises for crimes by crew members, the last night before passengers disembark. Crew members think once the passengers are gone, their crime will not be prosecuted.
For Kert Clyde Jordan, 35, a Carnival Liberty waiter from Grenada, that was a miscalculation. After the girl arrived home, she told her parents that the cruise waiter known as "Clyde" had taken her into one of the public, private family restrooms used by parents to manage multiple children of both genders at one time. There he sexually assaulted her for a period of an hour and half beginning around 2345 hours.
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Christopher Barrable, 68, from Portchester in the United Kingdom was arrested, convicted July 5, 2011 and then sentenced on July 29, 2011, after being in jail awaiting trial for a period of over two years, has been labeled a child molesting pedophile and will be on the sex offenders registry in the United Kingdom, for what will likely be the rest of his life. Barrable was convicted in Portsmouth Crown Court for multiple counts of sexual assault on an under-13.
Judge Roger Hetherington said that the touching was done despite repeated attempts by the victim, young as she was, to try to get Barrable to stop.
Barrable was convicted after a little girl who had been 5-6 years-old at the time of the attacks in 2009 and 2010, told authorities that Barrable placed his hands beneath her underwear and moved them around.
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The parents of a 4-year-old little girl discovered that she was sexually assaulted at Camp Carnival, while her parents were enjoying adult activities aboard the Carnival Cruise Lines', Carnival Legend on Friday, July 16, 2010.
The incident took place on the evening of July 16, 2011 between the hours of 2200 hours and 0300 hours while the parents were in public areas of the ship, having left the child in the safe care of Carnival Legend employees, per the cruise line's advertising materials.
http://www.skewsme.com/disney_strike.html#axzz1iYNbVnh9
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Disney Trademarks 'Seal Team 6,' Name Of Unit That Killed Bin Laden
First Posted: 05/14/11 01:40 PM ET Updated: 07/14/11 06:12 AM ET
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In separate testing to recreate regular handling, other glasses shed small but notable amounts of lead or cadmium from their decorations. Federal regulators have worried that toxic metals rubbing onto children's hands can get into their mouths. Among the brands on those glasses: Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Burger King and McDonald's.http://www.newser.com/story/105867/high-levels-of-lead-cadmium-found-in-glasses.html
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http://www.justicenewsflash.com/2010/04/12/california-entertainment-news-hannah-montana-creators-sue-disney-5m_201004123999.html
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Los Angeles California entertainment: Hannah Montana creators sue for $5M
2010-04-12 22:24:52 (GMT) (JusticeNewsFlash.com - Entertainment Law, Justice News Flash)
California entertainment lawyers alert- Disney faces lawsuit over Hannah Montana compensation.
Los Angeles, CA—Two of the creators or the hit Disney Channel television show “Hannah Montana,” have filed a lawsuit against the network for over $5 million in profits resulting from the show. The suit, which was filed on Friday, April 9, 2010 in the Los Angeles Superior Court, asserts that the creators have been denied their fair share of the successful tween show, as reported by MSNBC.
The co-creators, Barry O’Brien and Richard Correll, created the highly profitable Miley Cyrus series with Michael Poryes in 2005. The plaintiff’s claim they are owned millions in pre-negotiated percentage-based bonuses as outlined in their back-end agreements and according to the Writers Guild of American mandates. The suit contends Disney has repeatedly denied requests for payment and “thwarted attempts to audit profits from the show.”
In addition to the unpaid profits, Correll claims he was wrongfully fired from the show, and has been “blackballed” from future directing jobs at Disney after he testified in connection with the arbitration. The lawsuit contends, “The real reason for Defendants’ termination and blackballing of Correll was Disney’s desire to retaliate” against him “for a) seeking compensation owing to Correll” and O’Brien and “b) their testimony against Disney in the WGA Arbitration.” The duo was apparently fighting with Disney in WGA arbitration about the studios obligations to them “under certain provision of the WGA Agreement with respect to the series.”
The suit names Walt Disney Pictures, ABC Cable Networks Group, Disney Channel, producers Bigwood Films, Fuss Budget Films, Silver Creek Pictures and It’s a Laugh Prods as the defendants.
Poryes also sued Disney for similar allegations in October 2008.
Legal News Reporter: Nicole Howley-Legal news for California entertainment lawyers.
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Miley Cyrus
Disney has been sued by the creator of their hit show “Hannah Montana” starring Miley Cyrus, for cutting him out of his share of the profits. Typical Hollywood. A day in Hollywood the industry wouldn’t be complete without somebody robbing someone for undue financial gain. It really is quite pathetic and shameful.
Hannah Montana cast
Considering Disney has made over a billion dollars off the "Hannah Montana" series, movies and merchandising, it is very ugly that they ripped off the person that made it possible. Hollywood is worse than the mafia. Only they hire corrupt private investigators like Anthony Pellicano to do their dirty work for them that transgress all acceptable bounds of the law.
MILEY CYRUS - HANNAH MONTANA CO-CREATOR SUES DISNEY CHIEFS FOR A CUT OF PROFITS
The co-creator of MILEY CYRUS' TV show is suing Disney bosses, claiming he is owed royalties from HANNAH MONTANA merchandise.
Michael Poryes filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Monday (6oct08), accusing executives at the studio of failing to pay him a cut of the profits from Hannah Montana movies, books and other accessories, citing the billions Disney has profited from the success of the franchise.
He is seeking almost $1 million (GBP540,000) in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, interest and court costs, reports TMZ.com.
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/hannah%20montana%20co-creator%20sues%20disney%20chiefs%20for%20a%20cut%20of%20profits_1082869
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/anthony_pellicano/1_index.html
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But the truly explosive material was uncovered in a subsequent FBI raid on his office. Following a lead that Anita Busch's telephones had been tapped, agents returned to Pellicano's office on January 14, 2003, looking for evidence of wiretapping. The agents penetrated Pellicano's "War Room" and seized "11 computers, including five Macs, 23 external hard drives, a Palm V digital assistant, 52 diskettes, 34 Zip drives, 92 CD-Roms, and two DVDs," according to Vanity Fair. This equipment contained "3.868 terabytes of data," the New York Times reported, "the equivalent of two billion pages of double-spaced text." The content of these electronic files was Pellicano's work product as Hollywood's wiretapper to the stars, illegally intercepted telephone conversations of the rich and famous. Some of these wiretaps were ordered by powerful attorneys and executives seeking an unfair advantage in legal disputes. Some of the intercepted conversations concerned personal matters, like divorce and child custody disputes. Much of it was business as usual, Hollywood-style. All of it was obtained illegally.
As news of the seizure of Pellicano's files spread like brush fire, people in the "biz" became very nervous. Many of Hollywood's top movers and shakers had used Pellicano's services or had retained attorneys who did. If the FBI listened to those tapes, indictments would certainly follow. Hollywood held its breath, waiting to see where the ax would fall.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/anthony_pellicano/1_index.html
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But the truly explosive material was uncovered in a subsequent FBI raid on his office. Following a lead that Anita Busch's telephones had been tapped, agents returned to Pellicano's office on January 14, 2003, looking for evidence of wiretapping. The agents penetrated Pellicano's "War Room" and seized "11 computers, including five Macs, 23 external hard drives, a Palm V digital assistant, 52 diskettes, 34 Zip drives, 92 CD-Roms, and two DVDs," according to Vanity Fair. This equipment contained "3.868 terabytes of data," the New York Times reported, "the equivalent of two billion pages of double-spaced text." The content of these electronic files was Pellicano's work product as Hollywood's wiretapper to the stars, illegally intercepted telephone conversations of the rich and famous. Some of these wiretaps were ordered by powerful attorneys and executives seeking an unfair advantage in legal disputes. Some of the intercepted conversations concerned personal matters, like divorce and child custody disputes. Much of it was business as usual, Hollywood-style. All of it was obtained illegally.
As news of the seizure of Pellicano's files spread like brush fire, people in the "biz" became very nervous. Many of Hollywood's top movers and shakers had used Pellicano's services or had retained attorneys who did. If the FBI listened to those tapes, indictments would certainly follow. Hollywood held its breath, waiting to see where the ax would fall.
