04-11-2021, 11:33 AM
By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN
Updated 2253 GMT (0653 HKT) November 3, 2021
(CNN)The federal government's academy for merchant mariners is halting a key training program that sends students thousands of miles away from campus on commercial ships after a 19-year-old student was allegedly raped at sea.
The decision by the Department of Transportation, which oversees the US Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), came just weeks before students were set to embark on their "Sea Year" voyage, in which students are typically sent in pairs to work alongside older, predominantly male crew members.
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This is the second time in five years that Sea Year has been halted amid concerns about sexual assault and harassment.
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a current student did decide to come forward anonymously this fall, bringing the school under fire once again. Known as Midshipman-X, the woman wrote online that she was raped by her supervisor, a senior crew member, in 2019 while aboard a Maersk ship during Sea Year. She said that she was the only female on the ship and that for the next 50 days, she had to continue to work for her assailant and see him every day.
While she said she was too scared to report the crime at the time, she decided to share her experience after learning that nine other female students currently enrolled at the academy said they had also been raped during their Sea Year.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/03/busin...index.html
Updated 2253 GMT (0653 HKT) November 3, 2021
(CNN)The federal government's academy for merchant mariners is halting a key training program that sends students thousands of miles away from campus on commercial ships after a 19-year-old student was allegedly raped at sea.
The decision by the Department of Transportation, which oversees the US Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), came just weeks before students were set to embark on their "Sea Year" voyage, in which students are typically sent in pairs to work alongside older, predominantly male crew members.
......
This is the second time in five years that Sea Year has been halted amid concerns about sexual assault and harassment.
......
a current student did decide to come forward anonymously this fall, bringing the school under fire once again. Known as Midshipman-X, the woman wrote online that she was raped by her supervisor, a senior crew member, in 2019 while aboard a Maersk ship during Sea Year. She said that she was the only female on the ship and that for the next 50 days, she had to continue to work for her assailant and see him every day.
While she said she was too scared to report the crime at the time, she decided to share her experience after learning that nine other female students currently enrolled at the academy said they had also been raped during their Sea Year.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/03/busin...index.html
