BROOKLYN (CN) — In a stunning move the morning his trial was set to begin, a cargo ship captain pleaded guilty Wednesday to drugging and sexually assaulting a cadet in the U.S. Marine Merchant Academy while she was training aboard his ship.
Following two days of jury selection, opening arguments were set to begin Wednesday morning with the victim, identified as Jane, expected to testify as the first witness. Instead, after a two-hour delay, John Merrone admitted he drugged and raped Jane in September 2019 on the commercial shipping vessel Liberty Glory, which was traveling from Bahrain to Corpus Christi, Texas.
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