A jealous husband who brutally beat his wife on a cruise to the Bahamas, breaking her nose and eye socket, was hit with federal charges when the ship returned to Brooklyn, prosecutors allege.
Noel Igor Gomez Saint Kitts, 32, and his wife departed Brooklyn on the MSC Meraviglia on Nov. 23. Six days into the trip he flipped out after he thought another man was looking at her, according to a criminal complaint.
Saint Kitts accused her of cheating on him, and at 3 a.m. on Nov. 29, while the ship was traveling in international waters, around 100 miles off the coast of North Carolina, he attacked her, the feds allege.
He grabbed his wife’s throat and squeezed tight enough to leave finger-shaped bruises on her neck, then started punching her head so hard he fractured her orbital bone and nose, the feds allege. He kicked her repeatedly in the stomach, causing her to vomit blood, according to a complaint.
Saint Kitts then called the cruise concierge to their cabin, saying his wife had a nosebleed. But cruise ship employees noticed she was bleeding from the face and that his knuckles were covered in blood, the feds allege.
He told them he only remembered punching her twice, according to the feds.
The ship was on its way back to Red Hook, and when it docked on Nov. 30, NYPD officers and EMT medics were waiting.
Saint Kitts, who has a past domestic violence arrest involving his wife in upstate Clinton County, N.Y., violated a judge’s limited protective order that barred him from committing any crimes against her, according to the feds.
He lives in Plattsburgh, N.Y., where he works at a factory, law enforcement sources said.
Saint Kitts is charged with assault under federal maritime law because he was at sea. On Thursday, a Brooklyn Federal Court judge ordered him held without bail.
His lawyer did not immediately return messages seeking comment Tuesday.
