Survivor: Yacht Crew Member
Season 2, Episode 702, Oct 31, 2022, 02:17 PM
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Recently in Palma de Mallorca, a young woman in yachting came forward identifying a Captain as her abuser and pressing charges. As a result, four other women from around the world have also shared their stories in regards to the very same individual.
Since being charged AND convicted in 2018, this man has managed to work his way around many countries, leaving a trail of terrorized women in his wake. When charges are filed, he flees that country, and finds work onboard another vessel, followed by, another victim.
A Serial offender has hunting patterns, which over time, escalate. The first woman that pressed charges, the pattern was drawn out, and the truth of the monster that lay beneath, stayed hidden for a considerable amount of time, until it wasn't. More recently, the grooming and isolation of his chosen victim, has intensified, creating a time line between the initial love bombing, to physical abuse, a matter of months rather than years.
Yachting, by it's very nature, is the perfect hiding spot for a man such as this. Where image and reputation is carefully guarded, unequal power relations between women and men, rigid gender roles, norms and hierarchies, and ascribing women lower status thru their sexualization from yacht shows to marketing.
Compounding that, history has shown, if you are a woman accusing a man of higher rank onboard of a crime, you will soon find yourself jobless, and possibly looking for a new career entirely.The accused continues to climb even further up the ranks, and once those waters are tested, his crime having been ignored, feels secure and within his rights to continue his pattern of behaviour.
We all need to do better.
Meet this courageous woman and hear her story.
Domestic Violence Hotlines and Resources around the world by country:
https://www.hotpeachpages.net/a/countries.html
#domesticviolenceawarenessmonth
Recently in Palma de Mallorca, a young woman in yachting came forward identifying a Captain as her abuser and pressing charges. As a result, four other women from around the world have also shared their stories in regards to the very same individual.
Since being charged AND convicted in 2018, this man has managed to work his way around many countries, leaving a trail of terrorized women in his wake. When charges are filed, he flees that country, and finds work onboard another vessel, followed by, another victim.
A Serial offender has hunting patterns, which over time, escalate. The first woman that pressed charges, the pattern was drawn out, and the truth of the monster that lay beneath, stayed hidden for a considerable amount of time, until it wasn't. More recently, the grooming and isolation of his chosen victim, has intensified, creating a time line between the initial love bombing, to physical abuse, a matter of months rather than years.
Yachting, by it's very nature, is the perfect hiding spot for a man such as this. Where image and reputation is carefully guarded, unequal power relations between women and men, rigid gender roles, norms and hierarchies, and ascribing women lower status thru their sexualization from yacht shows to marketing.
Compounding that, history has shown, if you are a woman accusing a man of higher rank onboard of a crime, you will soon find yourself jobless, and possibly looking for a new career entirely.The accused continues to climb even further up the ranks, and once those waters are tested, his crime having been ignored, feels secure and within his rights to continue his pattern of behaviour.
We all need to do better.
Meet this courageous woman and hear her story.
Domestic Violence Hotlines and Resources around the world by country:
https://www.hotpeachpages.net/a/countries.html
#domesticviolenceawarenessmonth