Content material Warning: This text comprises references to youngster sexual abuse, animal abuse and sexual assault of minors.
Two crew members have been arrested final Sunday at PortMiami for possession of kid pornography, bringing the overall variety of crew members arrested in South Florida in simply the final 5 months to 12. Miami-Dade police arrested the cruise ship staff final weekend “after cabin searches turned up each youngster sexual abuse materials and bestiality movies on each of their cellphones,” in accordance with Miami Native 10 Information.
The native information station experiences that U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) Safety brokers searched the cabins of Igedeboy Mardika (prime {photograph}), a 28-year-old Indonesian nationwide, and Sreerag Vazhayil (backside {photograph}), a 32-year-old Indian nationwide, at PortMiami on Sunday. CBP brokers “found movies of each girls and boys being raped and sexually abused by each women and men; the victims have been as younger as preschool-aged.”
Vazhayil possessed a “video of a person having intercourse with a horse, whereas Mardika had three movies of ladies having intercourse with a horse, a canine and a pig,” in accordance with Miami-Dade Police. Mardika additionally distributed a toddler sexual abuse video, police stated, though the main points of this cost weren’t disclosed.
These two crew members are being criminally charged by prosecutors within the state legal justice system on this state. Florida is the one state within the U.S. with statutes empowering state legislation enforcement and state prosecutors to research, arrest and prosecute people on cruise ships which depart from and return to Florida.
Mardika faces 16 felony costs associated to the possession and promotion of kid sexual abuse materials, together with three counts of possessing bestiality movies.
Vazhayil faces seven felony costs associated to the possession of kid sexual abuse materials in addition to one cost of possessing a video depicting sexual conduct with animals.
We have now reported on ten different crew members engaged on cruise ships calling on Miami and Fort Lauderdale who’ve been arrested on youngster pornograpy costs since February of this 12 months:
2 Carnival Crew Members:
Iputuagus Karnawan, a/okay/a Putu Karnawan (age 28), reportedly labored for Carnival Cruise line within the galley as a cook dinner on the Carnival Conquest. Imadewisma Dana (additionally age 28), additionally reportedly labored a cook dinner on the Carnival Conquest. These two Carnival staff have been arrested for possession of kid sexual abuse supplies after they have been apprehended final week at PortMiami with youngster pornography on their telephones.
Imadewisma Dana (left), Iputuagus Karnawan (higher proper), Carnival Conquest (proper).
3 Royal Caribbean Crew Members:
Iwayan Pasek Brahmantara, age 32,(Royal Caribbean assistant waiter on the Surprise of the Seas), Komang Parianta, age 33, (Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas), and Zin Naing Htun, age 36, (Royal Caribbean, ship unknown) have been all arrested on costs of possessing youngster pornography. Brahmantara allegedly had two movies on his cellphone of ladies as younger as 5 years previous being sexually assaulted by males and a video of a feminine “partaking in sexual activity with a horse.”
Zin Naing Htun (left), Iwayan Pasek Brahmantara (prime proper), and Komang Parianta (backside proper).
3 Disney Crew Members;
Tirso Anthony Neri, age 44, (Disney Dream), Alvin Gonzalez, age 49, (Disney Dream), Amiel Trazo, age 28, (Disney Dream) have been arrested for possession of kid pornography on the identical Disney ship. U.S. CBP brokers discovered pornographic photographs of youngsters as younger as age 9 on Neri’s cell telephones, age 8 on Gonzalez’s cellphone, and age 6 on Trazo’s system.
Disney Dream (higher left), Alvin Gonzalez (higher proper), Tirso Anthonu Neri (decrease left), and Amiel Trazo (decrease proper).
1 Superstar Crew Member:
Dennis Ofrancia De Leon, age 44, (Superstar Reflection). Homeland Safety brokers discovered “a number of movies/pictures” depicting youngster sexual abuse materials. The legal courtroom file indicated that the brokers discovered movies “displaying girls and boys being raped or in any other case sexually abused . . .”
Dennis Ofrancia De Leon (left), Superstar Reflection (proper)
1 HAL Crew Member:
Jamaal Wade, age 28, (photograph beneath) employed by RWS International as a dancer / performer on a Holland America Line cruise ship). He was arrested with youngster sexual abuse supplies “involving minors as younger as two years previous engaged in sexual acts with adults,” and allegedly sexually abused an eleven year-old boy whereas on a tour for a efficiency group earlier than he labored on a cruise ship.
To date, three crew members working for Royal Caribbean, three ship staff on the Disney Dream, two crew member working for Carnival, one crew member working for Holland America Line and one crew member working for Superstar have been arrested on youngster pornography costs.
The place Did This Newest Crew Members Work?
The query arises who employed the final two crew members and on which cruise ship did they work?
Crackdown On Baby Pornography By U.S. and Florida Regulation Enforcement
There seems that there’s an effort by each state and federal legislation enforcement companies to research and prosecute individuals who possess and transport youngster pornography on cruise ships. It’s doubtless that when legislation enforcement seizes a crew member’s iPhone and/or pc, they get hold of proof resembling social media websites and web transmissions which share youngster pornography and/or bestiality photographs implicating a large variety of ship staff.
Are Cruise Employers Doing Something to Handle the Unlawful Conduct?
There stays the basic challenge whether or not cruise employers are taking any steps to ban youngster pornography on their ships.
Based on the Filipino publication Inquirer: “The Migrant Staff Workplace (MWO) of the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC, is working with companies deploying Filipino seafarers to cruise ships to deal with using youngster pornography amongst cruise ship employees. (“A minimum of seven Filipino cruise ship employees have been arrested and detained in Florida for possession and transportation of kid pornography inside the previous six months,” the MWO reported).
“US federal and state legal guidelines criminalize the manufacturing or promotion of kid pornography. People caught possessing, viewing, transporting and distributing youngster pornography might be prosecuted and penalized.”
The MWO urged the manning (employment) companies to advise “the seafarers to desist from downloading, possessing, viewing, transporting, distributing and promoting youngster pornography, in addition to subscribing to youngster pornography websites.” However there is no such thing as a indication that cruise traces are coaching their ship staff that youngster pornography is illegitimate on their cruise ships and there might be penalties if ship staff have interaction in such conduct.
The query additionally arises whether or not youngster pornography is even unlawful in among the international locations the place cruise traces recruit their staff such because the Philippines? In 2009, following advocacy by UNICEF and others, youngster sexual abuse supplies have been made unlawful within the Philippines for the primary time. However extra must be accomplished. “The authorized age of sexual consent within the Philippines remains to be simply 12 years previous,” in accordance with: UNICEF.
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Picture Credit score: VAZHAYIL, SREERAG – Miami-Dade-County-Sexual-Predators; MARDIKA, IGEDEBOY – Miami-Dade-County-Sexual-Predators; Carnival Conquest – NormanEinstein; Superstar Reflection – Master0Garfield commons/wikimedia; Dennis De Leon; Native 10 Information (WPLG); Disney Dream – Ajmexico from Melbourne, USA – CC BY 2.0 commons / wikimedia
