Nudist cruise worker raped guest and threw her overboard - but
she used acrobat training to cling to side
By MARYSE GODDEN
JAILED FOR 30 YEARS
Ketut Pujayasa told police he wanted to punish the 32-year-old
woman because he believed she had insulted him and his mother
A CRUISE ship worker who raped and tried to kill a passenger
after hiding in her cabin has been jailed more than 30 years for
the violent attack.
Ketut Pujayasa, 31, from Indonesia, pleaded guilty to brutally
raping and beating an American female guest and trying to throw her
overboard a nude Nieuw Amsterdam cruise from Port Everglades,
Florida, US.
Pujayasa, who worked as a room service attendant, confessed to
the horrific crime, saying he was punishing the 32-year-old woman
because he believed she had insulted him and his mother.
He told police she allegedly said “Wait a minute! Son of a
bitch!" when he knocked on her door with her breakfast.
Investigators said Pujayasa entered her cabin with a master key
and used a telephone cord and cord to her curling iron to strangle
the woman.
The unnamed victim fought for her life as she was savagely
beaten and raped
During the savage attack, which lasted up to an hour, Pujayasa
battered her with various objects inside the room and knocked her
unconscious before raping her.
After the assault, he tried to throw her overboard from the
balcony but thanks to her training as an acrobat and gym
instructor, she was able to hold on and escape.
Pujayasa then left the room by jumping from balcony to balcony
and told a colleague what he had done.
The colleague reported him to a superior and was held by
security until they reached a USA port.
According to the lawsuit: “Pujayasa beat her head and face so
hard that she experienced shifting of her teeth. All of the trauma
to her head produced a traumatic brain injury.”
Photographs of the victim’s injuries were shown to a Miami court
which included fractures to her spine, skull and face.
Police reports described the woman, who cannot be named,
emerging from the room partially naked and “painted with blood”
from head to toe.
She also had bites to the hands, swelling, bruising and
lacerations to the face, scalp, head, neck, back, front of torso,
arms, and legs and abrasions on both arms.
Her teeth were knocked out of place and her face was covered
with broken blood vessels from Pujayasa’s repeated attempts to
strangle her.
She now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive
compulsive disorder and cannot be left alone for more than a few
minutes.
“He has changed the way I live forever,” the victim wrote. “He
took my dreams, he took my independence, he took my self-esteem. He
has ruined my life.”
Ketut Pujayasa pleaded guilty charges of aggravated sexual
assault and attempted murder and was sentenced to 30 years and five
months in a Texas federal prison.
Pujayasa is expected to be deported to his native Indonesia
after serving his sentence.
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