A Celeb Cruises crew member was arrested in Fort Lauderdale by federal brokers who discovered baby sexual abuse materials on his cellphone when he disembarked in Port Everglades.
In accordance with Local 10 News (WPLG), who reviewed prison federal court docket paperwork (which you’ll evaluation here), Celeb crew member Dennis Ofrancia De Leon, age 44, a Filipino nationwide, disembarked the Celeb Reflection on Monday. Homeland Safety brokers discovered “a number of movies/pictures” depicting baby sexual abuse materials. The prison court docket file indicated that the brokers discovered movies “displaying girls and boys being raped or in any other case sexually abused . . .”
The court docket file indicated that De Leon admitted to viewing content material displaying victims below the age of 10.
That is a minimum of the fourth or fifth crew member arrested in South Florida for possession of graphic baby 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 photos 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 yr for possession of a video of a boy, believed to be as younger as 8, and a woman, 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 prices of possessing quite a few supplies depicting graphic baby sexual abuse “with kids between the approximate ages of 6 and 14.”
- Jamaal Wade, a dancer employed by RWS Global 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of kid pornography (greater than 15 movies), which he introduced on the ship, depicting kids as younger as “two years outdated engaged in sexual acts with adults.”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 prices of molesting an 11-year-old boy.
Prime left – Tirso Anthony Neri (Disney Dream); prime proper – Anthony Gonzalez (Disney Dream); backside left – Amiel Trazo (Disney Dream); and Cris Castor (Celeb Silhouette).
This isn’t the primary time {that a} Celeb crew member was arrested on prices of possessing baby sexual abuse supplies. Cris John Pentinio Castor, a Celeb youth counselor, was arrested after sexually abusing a minimum of 4 kids aboard the Celeb Silhouette after a 6-year-old got here ahead and reported him.
The numerous variety of crew members arrested for baby pornography raises questions of the cruise business’s hiring protocols. There is no such thing as a sexual predator database exterior of the U.S. the place these specific crew members have been employed. It’s clear to us after reviewing a whole lot of crew member personnel information through the years that cruise traces don’t carry out satisfactory investigations into the pre-employment historical past of potential staff.
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Picture credit score: Celeb Reflection – Master0Garfield commons/wikimedia; Dennis De Leon; Local 10 News (WPLG)
