A Celeb Cruises crew member was arrested in Fort Lauderdale by federal brokers who discovered little one sexual abuse materials on his cellphone when he disembarked in Port Everglades.
In keeping with Native 10 Information (WPLG), who reviewed prison federal courtroom paperwork (which you’ll be able to evaluate right here), Celeb crew member Dennis Ofrancia De Leon, age 44, a Filipino nationwide, disembarked the Celeb Reflection on Monday. Homeland Safety brokers discovered “a number of movies/images” depicting little one sexual abuse materials. The prison courtroom file indicated that the brokers discovered movies “displaying girls and boys being raped or in any other case sexually abused . . .”
The courtroom file indicated that De Leon admitted to viewing content material displaying victims beneath the age of 10.
That is not less than the fourth or fifth crew member arrested in South Florida for possession of graphic little one pornoghraphy in simply the final three months, to wit:
- Tirso Anthony Neri, age 44, a crew member on the Disney Dream cruise ship based mostly in Port Everglades, was charged final month with violating 18 USC 2252(a)(i) (transportation of kid pornography) and 2252(a)(4)(B) (possession of kid pornography) after brokers for the U.S. Customs and Border Safety and Homeland Safety Investigations discovered pornographic photos of kids as younger as age 9 on his cell telephones.
- Disney ship worker Alvin Gonzalez, age 49, was additionally arrested on the Disney Dream in early February of this yr for possession of a video of a boy, believed to be as younger as 8, and a woman, estimated to be as younger as 12, having intercourse with one another.
- Amiel Trazo, one other Disney crew member on the Disney Dream, age 28, was arrested in late February on prices of possessing quite a few supplies depicting graphic little one sexual abuse “with youngsters between the approximate ages of 6 and 14.”
- Jamaal Wade, a dancer employed by RWS International to work on a cruise ship operated by Holland America Line (HAL) was arrested final month for possessing a big amount of kid pornography (greater than 15 movies), which he introduced on the ship, depicting youngsters as younger as “two years outdated engaged in sexual acts with adults.” Wade was employed to carry out on the HAL cruise ship however that he had a prison report which included prices of molesting an 11-year-old boy.
High left – Tirso Anthony Neri (Disney Dream); high proper – Anthony Gonzalez (Disney Dream); backside left – Amiel Trazo (Disney Dream); and Cris Castor (Celeb Silhouette).
This isn’t the primary time {that a} Celeb crew member was arrested on prices of possessing little one sexual abuse supplies. Cris John Pentinio Castor, a Celeb youth counselor, was arrested after sexually abusing not less than 4 youngsters aboard the Celeb Silhouette after a 6-year-old got here ahead and reported him.
The numerous variety of crew members arrested for little one pornography raises questions of the cruise trade’s hiring protocols. There isn’t any sexual predator database outdoors of the U.S. the place these explicit crew members have been employed. It’s clear to us after reviewing a whole bunch of crew member personnel information over time that cruise strains don’t carry out enough investigations into the pre-employment historical past of potential workers.
You’ll be able to learn extra about the issue of crew members possessing little one abuse supplies and little one molestation on cruise ships on our weblog right here and right here.
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Picture credit score: Celeb Reflection – Master0Garfield commons/wikimedia; Dennis De Leon; Native 10 Information (WPLG)
