A Movie star Cruises crew member was arrested in Fort Lauderdale by federal brokers who discovered youngster sexual abuse materials on his cellphone when he disembarked in Port Everglades.
Based on Native 10 Information (WPLG), who reviewed prison federal courtroom paperwork (which you’ll overview right here), Movie star crew member Dennis Ofrancia De Leon, age 44, a Filipino nationwide, disembarked the Movie star Reflection on Monday. Homeland Safety brokers discovered “a number of movies/pictures” depicting youngster sexual abuse materials. The prison courtroom file indicated that the brokers discovered movies “exhibiting girls and boys being raped or in any other case sexually abused . . .”
The courtroom file indicated that De Leon admitted to viewing content material exhibiting victims beneath the age of 10.
That is at the very least the fourth or fifth crew member arrested in South Florida for possession of graphic youngster pornoghraphy in simply the final three months, to wit:
- Tirso Anthony Neri, age 44, a crew member on the Disney Dream cruise ship primarily based 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 photographs 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 12 months for possession of a video of a boy, believed to be as younger as 8, and a lady, 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 costs of possessing quite a few supplies depicting graphic youngster sexual abuse “with kids 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 kids as younger as “two years previous engaged in sexual acts with adults.” Wade was employed to carry out on the HAL cruise ship however that he had a prison file which included costs of molesting an 11-year-old boy.
High left – Tirso Anthony Neri (Disney Dream); prime proper – Anthony Gonzalez (Disney Dream); backside left – Amiel Trazo (Disney Dream); and Cris Castor (Movie star Silhouette).
This isn’t the primary time {that a} Movie star crew member was arrested on costs of possessing youngster sexual abuse supplies. Cris John Pentinio Castor, a Movie star youth counselor, was arrested after sexually abusing at the very least 4 kids aboard the Movie star Silhouette after a 6-year-old got here ahead and reported him.
The numerous variety of crew members arrested for youngster pornography raises questions of the cruise trade’s hiring protocols. There isn’t any sexual predator database exterior of the U.S. the place these explicit crew members have been employed. It’s clear to us after reviewing tons of of crew member personnel information over time that cruise traces don’t carry out ample investigations into the pre-employment historical past of potential staff.
You possibly can learn extra about the issue of crew members possessing youngster abuse supplies and youngster molestation on cruise ships on our weblog right here and right here.
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Picture credit score: Movie star Reflection – Master0Garfield commons/wikimedia; Dennis De Leon; Native 10 Information (WPLG)
