EXCLUSIVEWoman, 21, raped by ship worker on dream Caribbean cruise is awarded extra $2 million in damages after Carnival appealed jury's $10 million verdict
A woman who was raped after being forced into a closet on a Caribbean cruise has been awarded an extra $2million after Carnival appealed a $10 million verdict in her favor.
The woman, from Washington D.C. will now get more than $12 million for her ordeal at the hands of a Carnival employee.
Her attacker, Fredy Anggara, has never been arrested for the assault, which took place on December 2, 2018.
The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, was 21 at the time of the assault. She had been traveling on the Carnival Miracle ship with a friend and her family on a round trip from Tampa, Florida, stopping at Grand Cayman, Isla Roatan, Belize, and Cozumel.
Fredy Anggara was never arrested or charged over the incident on the boat. The victim was interviewed by the FBI who did not take matters further
Court documents claim that after seeking medical attention, Jane Doe was subjected to ‘humiliation’, and was forced to walk through other passengers wearing just a T-shirt as she was not provided with fresh clothes
A federal jury in the Southern District of Florida found Carnival liable for damages of $10.2 million in 2022 following her lawsuit for false imprisonment and rape.
Carnival filed several post-trial motions, but last week Judge Kathleen Williams denied their attempts to overturn the jury verdict.
Williams ruled that the company had to pay an extra $2million in interest after dragging the case on for another two years – bringing the total to $12,367,229.90.
Daniel Courtney, attorney for Jane Doe, told DailyMail.com: 'My client is very pleased that after Carnival had its opportunity to try and undo the Miami jury's efforts, Judge Williams denied Carnival's motions and entered a judgment in her favor.
'This is a significant day for my client, and hopefully for all sexual assault survivors, who can see that justice, though sometimes difficult to secure, is indeed possible in our country.'
Courtney added that Anggara wasn't arrested after the incident took place and it's unclear where he is currently.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, Jane Doe said: 'The jury did not just validate me, but they validated other sexual assault survivors. That makes me so grateful.'
A representative for Carnival did not immediately respond to a request for comment by DailyMail.com.
Following the initial ruling, the company claimed the incident between Doe and Anggara was consensual.
Footage released during discovery shows Anggara following Jane Doe on the deck of the ship before he forced her into a storage closet and raped her
Carnival Cruise Line appealed the original decision by a jury to award Jane Doe $10.2 million dollars after she was raped by a crew member on board the ship
They added that Anggara was fired immediately, as the company has a zero-tolerance policy for crew having a relationship with a guest.
'The jury specifically did not find Carnival in any way negligent,' the company said in a statement to DailyMail.com in July 2022.
'The crewmember admitted that he had a consensual sexual encounter with the guest which is consistent with an investigation by the FBI that concluded the encounter was consensual.
'Carnival denied the allegations based on its investigation and that of law enforcement and continues to believe that the encounter was consensual.
'Prior to the start of trial, the court made a pre-trial ruling in which it found that the crewmember falsely imprisoned the guest in a room where the consensual act took place, based on the lack of evidence from the crewmember to contradict the plaintiff's assertions.
'The safety and security of Carnival guests is paramount.
At the time Carnival said it 'intends to appeal this decision and is disappointed with the jury's verdict which it believes was the result of confusion over the pre-trial ruling of false imprisonment'.
Court records show Carnival was found to not be negligent and that Anggara did not intentionally inflict emotional distress on Jane Doe.
Doe filed a complaint against Carnival Cruise Line in November 2019, almost a year after the incident took place.
The complaint didn't name Anggara, who is from Indonesia, as a defendant in the lawsuit, with the incident taking place on the last night of the cruise.
After dining with a friend and two other passengers, Doe, who was on her first cruise, reportedly became highly intoxicated, according to attorney Courtney.
The attack occurred on the last day of the cruise which had taken in Caribbean beauty spots such as Isla Roatan, an island off Honduras (left) and Cozumel
Court documents show Doe also slipped and hit her head on the ship's pool deck shortly before she encountered Anggara, who was 27 at the time of the assault.
She went up a stairwell, Anggara followed and lured her into a maintenance closet, where he proceeded to rape her while keeping the door locked.
He unlocked the door after the incident, with Doe running to her room before being followed by her attacker asking her to let him into her room.
She refused, gaining access to her room, and bursting into tears while telling her friend what occurred before they reported the incident.
Doe then started hyperventilating but managed to locate other employees of Carnival Cruise to report the incident.
'This is a significant day for my client, and hopefully for all sexual assault survivors,' Doe's attorney Daniel Courtney told DailyMail.com
Staff on board the ship took her to the medical facility where she was treated with a rape kit and given medication to fight any diseases she may have been subjected to during the assault.
Court documents claim she was then subjected to 'humiliation' as she was forced to walk through other passengers wearing just a T-shirt as she was not provided fresh clothes.
Anggara told Carnival in a written statement that Doe chose to go inside the closet and have sex with him.
Following the assault FBI agents came aboard the ship and interviewed Jane Doe, who gave a statement while being recorded by Carnival.
Prior to the trial the court found that Doe had already proven her false imprisonment claim.
In an opinion, the court ruled: 'There is no evidence that the jury could rely on to reject Doe's undisputed recollection that at some point inside the closet Mr. Anggara did not let her exit the closet after she sought to do so.
'For that period of time, Plaintiff's claim for false imprisonment has been established as a matter of law.'
The FBI did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment on the incident.
