The Miami-Dade Police Division arrested a passenger who disembarked from an unidentified cruise ship at PortMiami final weekend on expenses of “buying baby sexual abuse materials on-line.”
Miami-Dade Police arrested Nicholas Gardener, age 24, of Brampton, Ontario who was initially held within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Middle on a $50,000 bond for 5 felony expenses associated to the possession of kid sexual abuse supplies.
In response to Native Information 10 in Miami, the arrest report signifies {that a} U.S. Customs and Border Safety officer searched Gardner’s telephone and located three illicit movies and two illicit pictures which depicted ladies between the ages of 5 and 8 being victimized.
There have been a big variety of arrests for sexual crimes on cruise ships by state and federal legislation enforcement officers in South Florida. A minimum of seventeen (17) crew members have been arrested in a seven month interval in 2024 for possession of kid pornography on cruise ships returning to ports primarily in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
The cruise crime information required by the Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act (CVSSA) from the third quarter of this yr (from July 1 – September 30) exhibits that sexual assaults on cruise ships rose to 38 from 25 (from April 1 to June 30). Surprisingly, Disney Cruise Line led all cruise traces with 11 sexual assaults and rapes in simply three months. It’s unknown to the general public what number of of those sexual crimes concerned minors. (The cruise business lobbied closely to keep away from having to reveal whether or not kids had been victimized whereas the U.S. Congress was enacting the CVSSA).
The CVSSA doesn’t disclose when a crew member or cruise visitor is arrested on expenses of kid pornography. The general public is dependant on studies of the native information group reporting a lot of these crimes.
Taking a cruise with your loved ones exposes them to a big danger of a sexual crime. Sadly, enforcement usually is unduly involved with the status of the cruise business and doesn’t disclose the identify of a selected cruise ship when a sexual crime takes place.
The native information report of this crime (Gardener reportedly confessed) didn’t establish the identify of the cruise ship. Final Saturday, six ships operated by 4 cruise traces had been on the port of Miami: Icon of the Seas, Independence of the Seas, Norwegian Pleasure, MSC Seascape, Carnival Magic, and Carnival Dawn.
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Picture credit: Photograph of Carnival, NCL and Royal Caribbean ships – Monetary Occasions; Nicholas Gardener mug shot – Miami Dade Police by way of Native Information 10.
