A mother and son duo from Alabama were kicked off a cruise ship after the couple was allegedly caught on video engaging in a vile act with an elderly passenger.
Kelli Lyn Ryan, 49, and her son, Dylan Ryan, 23, of Huntsville, were accused of open-handed slapping another passenger said to be over 65 years old on the MSC Seascape cruise from Miami , Florida.
Surveillance footage obtained by police showed Kelli slapping the elderly victim, whose identity remains unknown, inside the ship’s two-deck theater after an argument broke out around 9:30 p.m. on October 6.
His son also appears in the video hitting the elderly victim several times, the ship’s deputy security chief told police, according to local10.
Kelli Lyn Ryan (pictured), 49, and her son, Dylan Ryan, 23, of Huntsville, were accused of open-handed slapping another passenger said to be over 65 on the cruise ship of MSC leaving Miami, Florida.
Dylan was kicked off the nearly 6,000-passenger ship for “excessive behavior” after the cruise stopped at its first port in Falmouth, Jamaica, police reports reveal.
Dylan was kicked off the nearly 6,000-passenger ship the day after the altercation for “excessive behavior” when the cruise ship stopped at its first port in Falmouth, Jamaica, police reports reveal.
However, the 23-year-old’s mother was allowed to stay on the ship while it made stops on Grand Cayman Island, Mexico, and MSC Ocean Cay, the cruise company’s private island in the Bahamas.
Nearly a week after her son was kicked out of the seaside vacation, Kelli was arrested and charged with assault on a person 65 years of age or older when the Seascape ship finally returned to Port Miami.
As of Monday, the 49-year-old man was no longer listed in the jail’s online database, Local10 reported.
No details have yet been released regarding the subject of the alleged altercation.
MSC Cruises has also not publicly issued any statement regarding the incident.
Viewers took to social media in the days following the incident to speculate what may have happened to the 23-year-old who was left behind in Jamaica, as well as why his mother may have been left without her son.
The 23-year-old’s mother was allowed to stay on the ship while it made stops on Grand Cayman Island, Mexico, and MSC Ocean Cay, the cruise company’s private island in the Bahamas. Pictured: Inside MSC’s Seascape cruise ship
‘Wow, how “overly” violent do you have to act to get kicked off the cruise ship in a foreign port by MSC security?’ Cruise Law News on Facebook posted.
“Being abandoned in Jamaica with no resources is no joke either,” another user added.
Another responded: “Sailing these big ships is dangerous on many levels.”
Expulsion of passengers from cruise ships is considered a relatively rare occurrence and generally occurs only when there are serious behavioral problems or serious medical conditions.