A U.S. Border Safety agent arrested a cruise passenger who sailed on the Scarlet Girl for possession of kid pornography on Wednesday at Virgin Voyages’ terminal on the Port of Miami.
Michael Fanning, age 47, of Atlanta was arrested when authorities reportedly found a number of movies depicting little one pornography on his cellphone, in accordance with a number of information sources.
Federal brokers searched Fanning’s cellphone and located three movies exhibiting little one pornography, in accordance with native NBC-6 in Miami. An additional search reportedly revealed two extra porn movies
“Fanning spoke with investigators and mentioned he had quite a few movies saved on his cellphone in a folder named ‘Y’ and mentioned the ‘folder was used to categorize the pornography as younger,’ the report mentioned.”
WIOD-610 Radio in Miami reported that “the content material of the found movies included scenes involving the rape of boys as younger as 8 years outdated.”
We report routinely when cruise passengers or crew members are caught with pornography, and when friends are sexually assaulted throughout cruises.
One-third of the sexual assaults which happen on cruise ships contain minors. This agency proceed to report on such circumstances that are according to the testimony of a senior FBI official earlier than Congress and investigations by main nationwide information shops. See: Sex Assault Victims on Cruise Ships Are Often Under 18.
In March, we reported on the disturbing legal circumstances of an assistant cruise director and visitor actions officer employed by Princess Cruises who had been concerned in creating and distributing graphically violent little one pronography iamges whereas on a Princess cruise ship.
Thus far, Princess Cruises have averted any point out of those crimes involving a minor who sailed together with her mother and father on a Princess cruise ship.
In June, we reported {that a} cruise ship worker, who describes himself as a music director of Royal Caribbean, was jailed in Australia for acquiring and accessing little one abuse pictures and movies.
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Picture credit score: Scarlett Girl – Virgin Voyages; Michael Fanning – Miami-Dade Police Division through NBC-6.
