Immediately, the Miami New Occasions, through Alexa DeLuca, reported {that a} second Disney crew member on the Disney Dream cruise ship was arrested at Port Everglades for possession and transportation of kid pornography. Performing on suggestions from the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Kids, a Particular Agent with the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI), boarded the Disney cruise ship and arrested the 28 year-old Disney crew member after reviewing his web units and discovering quite a few supplies depicting graphic little one sexual abuse “with kids between the approximate ages of 6 and 14.”
Two weeks in the past, we reported {that a} Homeland Safety activity power arrested Disney crew member Alvin Gonzalez, age 49, on the Disney Dream cruise ship, after they positioned a video on his cellphone which confirmed two kids having intercourse.
That case concerned a six (6) year-old little one who was taking a cruise together with her dad and mom aboard the Royal Caribbean-owned cruise ship when she was molested by a crew member referred to as “CJ,” later recognized as Cris John Pentinio Castor. Her dad and mom had dropped the little woman off at a “Camp at Sea program” on the youth heart on the cruise ship on the morning of November 27, 2023. The youth counselor inappropriately touched the kid below her clothes “within the neighborhood of her vagina” whereas she performed a online game within the youth heart. When confronted by investigating FBI brokers, the crew member admitted that he had molested no less than three (3) different kids within the youth facility on the Superstar cruise ship.
Daniel Scott Crow, employed by Princess Cruises as an assistant cruise director, was sentenced in 2022 by Southern District of Florida Decide Jose Martinez to thirty (30) years in jail for engaging an underage little one to interact in intercourse with him and participate within the manufacturing of kid pornography. Crow was thirty-five (35) years of age when he met the sixteen (16) 12 months outdated little one throughout a cruise in July 2019. A press release by the Division of Justice (DOJ) units forth the essential details of the disturbing sexual crimes dedicated by Crow.
A second Princess crew member, Angelo Victor Fernandes, from India, age 34, labored on the identical Princess cruise ship as Crow. Fernandes was buddies with Crow and the 2 males mentioned “acquiring kids for intercourse.” Fernandes admitted to federal brokers when he was arrested that he was sexually interested in Crow and despatched him sexually express movies and little one pornography in trade for movies of Crow masturbating. The 2 crew members mentioned travelling to sexually abuse kids as younger as 5 years of age. Decide Aileen Cannon, of the Federal District Court docket in Fort Pierce, Florida, sentenced Fernandes to 188 months (over 15 and1/2 years) in jail. A press release by the DOJ units forth the essential details of the crimes dedicated by Fernandes.
You possibly can examine these two Princess Cruises staff sentenced to mixed jail phrases of 45 years here.
Sure, cruising with kids presents dangers that the majority dad and mom wouldn’t take into account. Most cruise traces don’t carry out background checks which embody little one predator databases. Most cruise traces and Disney, particularly, require strict confidentiality orders in sexual assault circumstances. So the general public doesn’t hear about many circumstances of sexual assault and molestation at sea. A U.S. Congressional report in 2013 discovered that a third of reported sexual assaults aboard cruise ships involved minors.
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Picture credit: Disney Dream – Ajmexico from Melbourne, USA – CC BY 2.0 commons / wikimedia; Amiel Joseph Trazo – Broward Sheriff’s Workplace through Miami New Occasions; Disney Dream – Ajmexico from Melbourne, USA – CC BY 2.0 commons / wikimedia; Alvin Gonzalez – Broward County Sheriff’s Division through NBC-6 Miami; Superstar Silhouette – Arvid Olson/Flickr through Miami New Times; Superstar crew member – Fb and BrowardMugShot on Instagram; Royal Caribbean cruise ship subsequent to dana Moran article – Courier Mail; Dana Lachlan Moran – Facebook and Instagram; Daniel Crow and Anglo Fernandes – nameless; Coral Princess – Reuters: Marco Bello through ABC Australia
