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Video Showing Final Moments Before Baby Falls Off Cruise Ship Leaked
Dec 24, 2019
The video involving the final moments of one-year-old kid Chloe Wiegand, who fell from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship in San Juan, Puerto Rico has been leaked and was telecast on Tuesday in a private channel.
The video was broadcast on the Puerto Rican station Mega TV. The family is upset by the public display of the video.
According to the USA Today report, the silent footage of the July 7 incident forms a crucial part of two cases related to Chloe's death.
There is a criminal case against Anello, the child’s grandfather charging negligent homicide. If convicted, he will face three years in prison.
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Who leaked it?
There is no clue on who had leaked the footage, and how it will impact the pending litigation.
Michael Winkleman, the attorney representing the Wiegand family allowed the media team to view the video to know what is inside it.
“The family publicly asks the Puerto Rican authorities, why was this footage released?” the Wiegand family said in a statement released through Winkleman.
Probe sought
It asked why they are inflicting such emotional distress on the family and called for an independent investigation into the leak.
The USA Today report said the footage showed Anello lifting Chloe and prodding her to bang on the window. The office of Puerto Rico Attorney General Dennise N. Longo Quiñones said her office has no idea how the media outlet got the video.
But the statement of AG added: “A careful review of video confirms Salvatore Anello is guilty of negligent homicide as charged.”
This, however, contradicts the scenario mentioned in the lawsuit filed by the family against the cruise line.
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Royal Caribbean declined to comment on the leak and court cases.
So Winkleman can show his edited version, oh sorry, software issues video, but no one else can do the same?
Rest assured that RCCL, PR LE and Prosecutors all followed chain of custody to preserve the evidence. Winkleman was the only one who had software issues....