Cadet Sues Major Shipping Company, Alleging Sexual Assault

Maersk Assault

A cadet associated with the US Merchant Marine Academy has identified herself publicly as “Midshipman X,” a sexual assault survivor who had been attacked during a training cruise in 2019 aboard the commercial vessel named Alliance Fairfax.

Midshipman Hope Hicks, a senior at the NY-based federal maritime academy, has reportedly filed a civil lawsuit in New York against Maersk, the shipping major that operated the Alliance Fairfax at the time of the attack.

The USMMA is a well-known federal service...

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