Cruise ship horror: Female guest almost thrown over after severely beaten and raped

Unnamed female managed to survive the brutal attack.

A 31-year-old married woman, brutally beaten and almost thrown overboard by a cruise's staff, managed to escape. The female guest on board Holland America was attacked by staff with access to the master key on February 14, 2014 inside her room during a cruise trip with a group of friends. On behalf of the victim "Jane Doe," a lawsuit against the cruise company was filed Friday at the Seattle district court.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - Atty. John H. (Jack) Hickey told The Daily Mail that Holland America was "grossly negligent," allowing a junior staff like Ketut Pujayasa, the perpetrator, access to a master key applicable to all cabins in the ship and with an insufficient number of security, who responded slow despite the urgency.

"To top it off, the cruise line's system is that when the other passengers dial 911 they get the front desk, not security, and the front desk responds to the scene some 45 minutes to an hour later and does not even have access to the cabin?" asked Atty. Hickey. "If this is not the definition of outrageous, I don't know what is."

Pujayasa, Indonesian in origin, plead guilty before a Miami court, and is now convicted to an imprisonment of 30 years. He attacked the victim by beating her, including pounding a laptop on her head and strangling her with telephone and curling iron cords until she was unconscious.

Reports state Pujayasa sexually assaulted and raped the woman after knocking her unconscious, then tried throwing her overboard into the deep, dark waters. "Jane Doe" screamed over and over but there was no one to respond.

As an aerialist, "Jane Doe" managed to exert a significant amount of physical strength to pull herself out of his grip by holding the door handle as he tried to drag her onto the balcony.

Reports explain she "managed to escape down the hall with the cord of a curling iron that he was using to strangle her still wrapped around her neck" while partially naked and "painted with blood."

The victim had to be air lifted to a hospital, after sustaining severe injuries.

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