Cruise Worker Rapes Passenger Then Tries To Throw Her Overboard The Ship [Photo]

According to the Orlando Sentinel, A cruise worker confessed to raping a passenger and trying to throw her overboard from her stateroom balcony, claiming the Valentine’s Day assault was revenge for an alleged slight, authorities said Tuesday. The vicious attack happened on a Holland America cruise ship that departed from Port Everglades, according to court records. The worker, Ketut Pujayasa, 28, was quickly detained on the MS Nieuw Amsterdam and arrested by the FBI when the ship returned to Fort Lauderdale on Sunday. The victim told investigators that her attacker appeared with no warning inside her darkened stateroom in the middle of the night, raped, beat, punched and strangled her and then tried to throw her from the balcony into the ocean in international waters somewhere off the coast of Roatan, Honduras. Pujayasa, an Indonesian citizen employed as a room service attendant for Holland America, claimed he was punishing the woman because he believed she had insulted him and his family, according to FBI agents who interviewed him. Pujayasa said he delivered breakfast the woman had ordered to her stateroom on Thursday. He said he knocked three times before the passenger acknowledged him and he claimed he heard a woman’s voice saying “Wait a minute, son of a b***h!” The agents arrested Pujayasa on charges of attempted murder and aggravated sexual abuse and took him from the ship to the Broward Main Jail. After a brief court appearance Tuesday morning in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, he was held without bond.