A dancer employed on an unidentified cruise ship was lately arrested in Broward County on one cost of possession of kid pornography and a second depend of receipt and distribution of kid pornography.
Twenty-six 12 months previous Jamaal Wade appeared in federal court docket in Fort Lauderdale in case quantity 0:24-mj-06151-PMH. A particular agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) verified in a grievance alleging violation of 18 USC 2252A that Wade engaged in prior prison sexual abuse of a kid, along with the next prison acts of possessing and distributing graphic pictures of kid pornography, to wit:
- In August 2023. Wade despatched one other Telegraph consumer “eight movies” containing youngster sexual abuse supplies “involving minors as younger as two years previous engaged in sexual acts with adults,” including “I’ve far more.”
- At a while after October 2023, Wade met with the one that he has beforehand despatched youngster pornography movies to by way of the Telegram app, and so they watched youngster sexual abuse movies collectively at his residence on 172 road in Washington Heights, New York.
- On January 14, 2024, Wade despatched a video depicting youngster sexual abuse supplies, to a covert FBI agent working a Telegram account, involving an underage boy, noting “that the kid depicted within the video is 11 or 12 years previous,” including that he “has a ton of movies.”
- On January 23, 2024, Wade despatched the FBI covert agent eight movies depicting male kids “between the ages of roughly 4 and eight years previous engaged in (graphic) sexual actions . . . with grownup males.”
- Wade was was beforehand arrested in Detroit, Michigan in February of 2020 for “rubbing the penis of an 11-year-old boy” whereas on a tour for a efficiency group earlier than he labored on a cruise ship. (The FBI agent indicated that he reviewed data from the Detroit Police Division relating to this crime). The OnStage Blog “famous that the present would have put him in direct contact with kids each within the present and attending performances.”
The FBI agent indicated that Wade is an expert dancer “at present employed” on board a cruise ship, which was not recognized. On March 22, 2024, Wade communicated with an undercover FBI agent by way of a Telegram app and indicated that he “introduced his assortment” of kid sexual abuse supplies “on board the ship.”
An area information station, Miami Local 10 News, reported that “court docket paperwork don’t specify which cruise line employed him on the time of his arrest; a profile of Wade states he has labored for each Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Strains.” The prison court docket data don’t establish the actual cruise line which final employed Wade. Nevertheless, the file does point out that one cruise line, which the FBI contacted, verified that he labored on a cruise ship as late as two weeks in the past. Since he was arrested in Broward County (however his everlasting residence is in New York), he could have been arrested when the cruise ship the place he labored returned to Port Everglades.
The truth that this youngster pervert and predator labored on cruise ships raises the basic and disturbing recurrent query: do cruise traces like Norwegian and Royal Caribbean conduct any sort of great background test into their potential worker’s prison background?
And why would the FBI refuse to establish this pedophile’s cruise line employer, Norwegian or Royal Caribbean?
Wade may resist 20 years in jail on every depend if convicted.
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April 13, 2024 Replace:
Wade’s Facebook page signifies that he was working as a dancer for Holland America Line. He labored for Royal Caribbean from 2017 to 2019 and for Norwegian Cruise Line earlier than then.
Picture credit score: Picture of Jamaal Wade and prison court docket filings – USA v. JAMAAL WADE case quantity 0:24-mj-06151-PMH, Federal District Courtroom Southern District of Florida (Fort Lauderdale FL) and Local 10 News (Miami).
