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Sasha Moxey's daughter Adriel was 12 when she was raped and murdered on her way home from school in the Bahamas.
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People nearby heard her screams – but nobody called the police and nobody went to help.
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'Where was the village?' Sasha, 34, told the Daily Mail.
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The court heard that Chris Ferguson, 39, followed Adriel along a bush path on November 18, 2024, told her he lived in the area and lured her into bushes, where he sexually assaulted her before strangling her with a belt.
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He came back the next day and moved her body.
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Ferguson, a Haitian national, pleaded guilty to murder and sex charges and was jailed in February for 40 years, with concurrent sentences of 15 years and one year for the other charges.
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Sasha once earned as much as $280 a day selling paintings as a street artist to tourists in downtown Nassau but said she has since been denied a permit as part of the government's attempts to 'clean up' the Bahamas.
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'Tourism is protected at the cost of the people who live here,' she said.
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She said most visitors see the islands as a paradise without understanding how crime and economic hardship affect the people who live there.
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She wants the government to do more for local communities and says cuts to public school budgets have left some young people with fewer paths into work.
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Her message to Americans is blunt: 'I would say to tourists, the Bahamas is a dangerous place, it's just like New York.
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You can still get robbed, you can still get mugged, anything
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Last year, Alicia Stearman bravely shared that she had been abducted and brutally raped inside a dilapidated shed in the Bahamas
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Sasha Moxey's daughter Adriel was 12 when she was raped and murdered on her way home from school in the Bahamas
As many as 14 million US tourists will visit the Caribbean this winter, mainly from the northeast, in search of sun as the cold weather sets in.
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Most come home with nothing worse than a tan.
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But some are coming back with horror stories.
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Some do not come back at all.
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Several islands still record some of the highest homicide rates in the hemisphere, even after sharp falls.
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In 2025, Jamaica's rate dropped to about 24 per 100,000 people and Trinidad and Tobago's to 27, against a US murder rate of about 4.1.
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The State Department rates Trinidad and Tobago at Level 3, telling Americans to reconsider travel, and Jamaica at Level 2, urging increased caution.
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Earlier this year, Alicia Stearman bravely shared with the Daily Mail the horror she experienced on a family vacation to the Bahamas as a teenager.
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At 16, she was abducted while alone outside her four-star hotel, taken by boat to an abandoned island and brutally raped inside a dilapidated shed.
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Last month Ohio tourist Briana Bazel, 25, was on her first trip to New Providence with her best friend when their jet-ski excursion was canceled.
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A man at Goodman's Bay introduced himself as a watersports operator and offered to arrange an alternative.
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That night, Bazel said, he became angry when she made clear she would not have sex with him.
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She told local news site The Tribune he grabbed her arm and punched her in the face outside a lounge, splitting her lip against a tooth.
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People were nearby, she said, but nobody helped.
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'I don't know if I'll be back anytime soon,' she said.
On October 1, Javez McDonald, 20, known as 'Dunky,' was jailed for three months after pleading guilty to two counts of assault.
The court heard he had also punched a 19-year-old American tourist in August after she refused to give him her phone number.
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He was on bail at the time, awaiting trial over the alleged rape of another American tourist on a Bahamian beach in November 2024.
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He has not been convicted of that charge.
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Sasha Moxley's message to Americans is blunt: 'I would say to tourists, the Bahamas is a dangerous place'
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The State Department's Bahamas advisory warns that some watercraft operators are not licensed or insured and notes reports of sexual assaults by jet-ski operators.
US government employees are banned from renting jet skis from independent operators on New Providence and Paradise Island.
In Tobago, Christopher Brown, 43, a builder and father of one from Silverthorne, Colorado, was on vacation with his girlfriend, Elli Peck, last November.
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They had dinner with friends in Castara, a quiet fishing village, then left, telling Peck he was going to buy marijuana.
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He never came back.
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His body was found later that night in bushes off a track near the village.
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Police said he had multiple stab wounds and a metal object protruding from his back.
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The University of Kansas economics graduate had worked as a ski instructor and bartender before founding his own construction firm.
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His family remembered his 'joyful exuberance and absolute zest for life.
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Kylelon Sandy, 26, a local man, has been charged with his murder.
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Police have not given a motive and it is unclear whether Sandy has entered a plea.
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…and 25 more, not listed.
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