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Two crew members had been arrested final Sunday at PortMiami for possession of kid pornography, bringing the whole variety of crew members arrested in South Florida in simply the final 5 months to 12. Miami-Dade police arrested the cruise ship workers final weekend “after cabin searches turned up each little one sexual abuse materials and bestiality movies on each of their cellphones,” based on Miami Local 10 News.
The native information station experiences that U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) Safety brokers searched the cabins of Igedeboy Mardika (prime {photograph}), a 28-year-old Indonesian nationwide, and Sreerag Vazhayil (backside {photograph}), a 32-year-old Indian nationwide, at PortMiami on Sunday. CBP brokers “found movies of each girls and boys being raped and sexually abused by each women and men; the victims had been as younger as preschool-aged.”
Vazhayil possessed a “video of a person having intercourse with a horse, whereas Mardika had three movies of ladies having intercourse with a horse, a canine and a pig,” based on Miami-Dade Police. Mardika additionally distributed a baby sexual abuse video, police mentioned, though the main points of this cost weren’t disclosed.
These two crew members are being criminally charged by prosecutors within the state prison justice system on this state. Florida is the one state within the U.S. with statutes empowering state regulation enforcement and state prosecutors to analyze, arrest and prosecute people on cruise ships which depart from and return to Florida.
Mardika faces 16 felony costs associated to the possession and promotion of kid sexual abuse materials, together with three counts of possessing bestiality movies.
Vazhayil faces seven felony costs associated to the possession of kid sexual abuse materials in addition to one cost of possessing a video depicting sexual conduct with animals.
Now we have reported on ten different crew members engaged on cruise ships calling on Miami and Fort Lauderdale who’ve been arrested on little one pornograpy costs since February of this 12 months:
2 Carnival Crew Members:
Iputuagus Karnawan, a/ok/a Putu Karnawan (age 28), reportedly labored for Carnival Cruise line within the galley as a prepare dinner on the Carnival Conquest. Imadewisma Dana (additionally age 28), additionally reportedly labored a prepare dinner on the Carnival Conquest. These two Carnival workers had been arrested for possession of kid sexual abuse supplies after they had been apprehended final week at PortMiami with little one pornography on their telephones.
Imadewisma Dana (left), Iputuagus Karnawan (higher proper), Carnival Conquest (proper).
3 Royal Caribbean Crew Members:
Iwayan Pasek Brahmantara, age 32,(Royal Caribbean assistant waiter on the Surprise of the Seas), Komang Parianta, age 33, (Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas), and Zin Naing Htun, age 36, (Royal Caribbean, ship unknown) had been all arrested on costs of possessing little one pornography. Brahmantara allegedly had two movies on his telephone of women as younger as 5 years outdated being sexually assaulted by males and a video of a feminine “participating in sexual activity with a horse.”
Zin Naing Htun (left), Iwayan Pasek Brahmantara (prime proper), and Komang Parianta (backside proper).
3 Disney Crew Members;
Tirso Anthony Neri, age 44, (Disney Dream), Alvin Gonzalez, age 49, (Disney Dream), Amiel Trazo, age 28, (Disney Dream) had been arrested for possession of kid pornography on the identical Disney ship. U.S. CBP brokers discovered pornographic photographs of youngsters as younger as age 9 on Neri’s cell telephones, age 8 on Gonzalez’s telephone, and age 6 on Trazo’s machine.
Disney Dream (higher left), Alvin Gonzalez (higher proper), Tirso Anthonu Neri (decrease left), and Amiel Trazo (decrease proper).
1 Movie star Crew Member:
Dennis Ofrancia De Leon, age 44, (Movie star Reflection). Homeland Safety brokers discovered “a number of movies/pictures” depicting little one 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 . . .”
Dennis Ofrancia De Leon (left), Movie star Reflection (proper)
1 HAL Crew Member:
Jamaal Wade, age 28, (photograph beneath) employed by RWS Global as a dancer / performer on a Holland America Line cruise ship). He was arrested with little one sexual abuse supplies “involving minors as younger as two years outdated engaged in sexual acts with adults,” and allegedly sexually abused an eleven year-old boy whereas on a tour for a efficiency group earlier than he labored on a cruise ship.
To this point, three crew members working for Royal Caribbean, three ship workers on the Disney Dream, two crew member working for Carnival, one crew member working for Holland America Line and one crew member working for Movie star had been arrested on little one pornography costs.
The place Did This Newest Crew Members Work?
The query arises who employed the final two crew members and on which cruise ship did they work?
Crackdown On Little one Pornography By U.S. and Florida Regulation Enforcement
There seems that there’s an effort by each state and federal regulation enforcement businesses to analyze and prosecute individuals who possess and transport little one pornography on cruise ships. It’s probably that when regulation enforcement seizes a crew member’s iPhone and/or laptop, they get hold of proof similar to social media websites and web transmissions which share little one pornography and/or bestiality photographs implicating a large variety of ship workers.
Are Cruise Employers Doing Something to Tackle the Unlawful Conduct?
There stays the basic subject whether or not cruise employers are taking any steps to ban little one pornography on their ships.
In accordance with the Filipino publication Inquirer: “The Migrant Employees Workplace (MWO) of the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC, is working with businesses deploying Filipino seafarers to cruise ships to deal with using little one pornography amongst cruise ship staff. (“At the least seven Filipino cruise ship staff have been arrested and detained in Florida for possession and transportation of kid pornography throughout the previous six months,” the MWO reported).
“US federal and state legal guidelines criminalize the manufacturing or promotion of kid pornography. People caught possessing, viewing, transporting and distributing little one pornography can be prosecuted and penalized.”
The MWO urged the manning (employment) businesses to advise “the seafarers to desist from downloading, possessing, viewing, transporting, distributing and promoting little one pornography, in addition to subscribing to little one pornography websites.” However there isn’t a indication that cruise traces are coaching their ship workers that little one pornography is illegitimate on their cruise ships and there can be penalties if ship workers have interaction in such conduct.
The query additionally arises whether or not little one pornography is even unlawful in among the nations the place cruise traces recruit their workers such because the Philippines? In 2009, following advocacy by UNICEF and others, little one sexual abuse supplies had been made unlawful within the Philippines for the primary time. However extra must be achieved. “The authorized age of sexual consent within the Philippines remains to be simply 12 years outdated,” based on: UNICEF.
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Picture Credit score: VAZHAYIL, SREERAG – Miami-Dade-County-Sexual-Predators; MARDIKA, IGEDEBOY – Miami-Dade-County-Sexual-Predators; Carnival Conquest – NormanEinstein; Movie star Reflection – Master0Garfield commons/wikimedia; Dennis De Leon; Local 10 News (WPLG); Disney Dream – Ajmexico from Melbourne, USA – CC BY 2.0 commons / wikimedia