Seven months after suing the United States for damages, a civilian engineer who says she was raped in her cabin by the civilian skipper of the Navy expeditionary fast transport Carson City in 2021 ...

Elsie E. Dominguez, a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, says she was working as the civilian 1st Assistant Engineer aboard the USNS Carson City when she was raped by the vessel’s ...

A civilian engineer serving on a Navy transportation vessel has filed a lawsuit claiming she was sexually assaulted by the ship’s captain in her bed — an attack she said the service could have ...

Elsie E. Dominguez, a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, was the 1st Assistant Engineer aboard the USNS Carson City when she said she was raped by the vessel’s captain. In a federal ...

The arguments “demonstrate a shocking lack of concern for the circumstances” in which Elsie Dominguez claims she was raped by the captain of the Navy transport ship on which she worked ...

Elsie Dominguez reads the comments on Reddit threads and news articles about her story. She hasn’t responded to every text message, email and LinkedIn comment addressed to her, but she’s read ...

Sanford Heisler Sharp and Maritime Legal Solutions PLLC filed a lawsuit on Nov. 29 in New Jersey District Court on behalf of Elsie E. Dominguez. The suit accuses the U.S. goverment of failing to ...

The captain is a civilian who is not named in the suit. The engineer, Elsie Dominguez, is seeking a jury trial in her civil case. However, she is also awaiting the outcome of a criminal report ...

Attorneys for the engineer, Elsie Dominguez, maintain that the case deserves a court remedy, saying rape always falls outside the scope of employee duties. Dominguez’s lawsuit, filed in November ...