Family of teen rape victim blames Bahamas hotel for lack of security

An American family says the negligent security of a Bahamas hotel led to their 15-year-old daughter’s rape by an alleged drug dealer, new court papers say.

Henry Richard Nixon was criminally charged for allegedly raping the teenage guest of the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar in Nassau on April 4, 2021. He faces a criminal trial May 22, according to a newly filed lawsuit.

Now the girl’s father has brought a $10 million case against the hotel for allegedly failing to protect his daughter, for lack of security and for allowing Nixon onto the property — despite his reputation as a local drug dealer, the papers say.

“Hyatt boasts its ability to provide families with a safe vacation, yet there were no security personnel which intervened to prevent this preventable crime,” the suit charges. “Defendant’s failure to take reasonable and necessary precaution caused T.H. to suffer a horrific, life-altering event.”

The victim — referred to as T.H. in the Florida federal lawsuit — left her hotel room barefoot early that morning to talk with a friend on the phone, the court papers say.

Afterward, Nixon began chatting with her before luring her to a cabana on hotel property to rape her, the suit alleges.

T.H.’s family — who were visiting the Caribbean island from Pennsylvania for Easter weekend — noticed she hadn’t returned to the room and went looking for her, the filing says.

The dad tracked her phone to the cabanas behind the hotel, where he discovered Nixon raping his daughter, the suit alleges.

“After the father ripped Nixon off, he found his daughter curled up on the ground, crying and in disarray, with her undergarments pushed to the side,” the court papers claim.

“I wanted to puke,” the dad told The Post. “I didn’t know this person.”

“I was so concerned for her safety,” the father said. “He was incredibly older than her. There was obviously something massively wrong.”