By David Lohr
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"The FBI agent who called me said that there was not enough evidence and that it was a 'he-said/she-said' case. We have requested my blood sample and photographs of my injuries and filed a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request and called and written to the FBI, but the FBI will not cooperate...
"I later learned that the cruise line lawyers met with the assailant after they boarded the cruise ship on Feb. 26, 2006. They boarded the ship shortly after 7:00 a.m. The FBI did not interview the assailant until noon. The cruise line lawyers continued to meet with him the next day when they took his statement for three hours. Unfortunately, the cruise line refuses to provide us with any of his statements because they were taken, according to the cruise line, to defend themselves in any lawsuit I might file."
According to Walker, the crew member accused of committing the rape was allegedly fired on Feb. 29, 2006, two days after the ship returned to port. The cruise line then flew him back to his home in Trinidad.
"The chronology was the FBI came onto the ship, gave him a polygraph, which we don't believe he passed, kept him employed, and then 2 days later terminated him for admitting to a consensual contact," Walker said in a telephone interview with Crime Library yesterday evening. "He had admitted to drinking beer and cognac, and he had alcohol bottles in his cabin, so they finally got rid of him."
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