An attorney representing the family of Chloe Wiegand said the blame for the tragedy lay with the cruise ship operator Royal Caribbean for negligence over an open window.
The attorney acting for the family of a toddler who died after she fell from a cruise ship window while with her grandfather said there will be"significant blame" on the cruise line for"what appears to be negligence."Freedom of the Seas
She then went to knock on the window, according to Winkleman, as she often did while watching her brother play ice hockey back home in Indiana, and"the next thing you know, she's gone," the attorney said. A gull lands on the rocks as the new cruise ship Freedom of the Seas, owned by Royal Caribbean, backs in port in Bayonne, New Jersey 12 May, 2006.In a press conference on Tuesday, Winkleman described the incident as"preventable" by the cruise ship taking action to warn that a window was open. He also urged the cruise company to turn over surveillance footage so authorities could piece together what happened.
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