Two grownup cruise passengers have been arrested final Friday at PortMiami on fees of sexually victimizing a 14 year-old boy on the Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas, based on quite a few local news stations.
In keeping with arrest studies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace , cruise passengers Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal (left photograph), age 37, and Jose Juan Prudencio Diaz (proper photograph), age 36, molested the boy within the public sauna of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, based on Miami Local News 10.
Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal and Jose Juan Prudencio Diaz
The arrest studies state that the crimes occurred final Thursday whereas the 2 males, each Mexican nationals who lived and traveled collectively, have been within the sauna of the Independence of the Seas.
The information sources state that Diaz uncovered himself to the boy and masturbated in entrance of the kid, whereas forcing the boy to the touch him.
Leal additionally reportedly masturbated in entrance of the boy and compelled him to carry out oral intercourse. Leal additionally carried out oral intercourse on the sufferer.
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace arrested each males after the cruise ship returned to PortMiami on Friday.
Each males face fees of lewd and lascivious exhibition on a baby and lewd and lascivious molestation of a kid.
Diaz faces a cost of intercourse with a sufferer with out informing the sufferer of his HIV standing. He’s being held with out bond on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart in Miami.
Leal is dealing with a depend of kid sexual battery and is being held within the Metrowest Detention Heart in Miami.
In keeping with the Daily Mail, each males have been denied bond Saturday, as a prosecutor mentioned: ‘The defendant, on this case, performing in live performance with one other defendant, they have been each on a cruise. This exhibits that they tried to focus on a selected minor, and this could possibly be achieved once more.”
Passengers sexually molesting minors on cruise ships, notably Royal Caribbean cruise ships, is nothing new as now we have identified over a few years. Only one yr in the past, the Miami-Dade Police Division arrested a twenty-one (21) yr previous man from Georgia for sexually propositioning a fourteen (14) year-old boy within the sauna of the Explorer of the Seas. The grownup passenger began to masturbate whereas “making eye contact with the sufferer.” The arrest report states that the grownup then requested the boy if he’d ever had oral intercourse earlier than. Police mentioned after the boy replied “no,” the assailant then “solicited oral intercourse” from the teenager, which he declined.
As we reported in 2013, “sexual assaults on Royal Caribbean cruise ships, in addition to on different cruise traces, are extra frequent than the cruise trade will admit. There are numerous tons of of crimes which have occurred through the years on the Royal Caribbean fleet – youngster porn freaks, youngster predators, and sexual deviants – each crew members and fellow passengers.”
You may examine a few of these disturbing circumstances in a previous article we posted: Sexual Perverts & Pedophiles on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ships.
For instance, a 73 year-old passenger was arrested in 2009 after he was caught fondling a 6-year-old boy whereas in a sizzling tub on the Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas cruise ship. When that boy acquired away, the grownup made temporary contact with one other boy. The person informed the arresting police investigators that he took the cruise on the Royal Caribbean ship so he may molest younger boys.
The newest incident final week follows the information from the Symphony of the Seas lasy yr the place a thirty-four (34) yr previous crew member employed by Royal Caribbean secretly positioned a spy-camera within the lavatory of a mom and her two grownup daughters who have been sharing a cabin. The Broward County Sheriff’s workplace and the FBI arrested the crew member on a number of fees of video voyeurism and youngster pornography after his digital camera and digital units indicated that he additionally videotaped youngsters as younger as 5 to 10 years of age in numerous types of undress. It was later revealed within the investigation by the Broward County Sherriff’s Workplace that the pervert crew member had put in cameras in practically 100 cabins on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Learn: Cruise Ship Worker Accused of Hiding Cameras in Bathrooms to Spy on Guests.
These sort of crimes additionally happen on many different cruise traces, together with in saunas and steam rooms on cruise ships. A 58 year-old passenger was arrested and charged with a felony depend of “abusive sexual contact” of two 12-year-old boys in a cruise ship sauna on the Diamond Princess, as reported by the Los Angeles Times.
In one other case involving a Carnival cruise ship, right here’s how native Miami information station WFTV described a sauna assault case, based mostly on the Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace report, when a Carnival Cruise Line worker sexually assaulted a younger boy:
“Yovany Sauzo-Batiz (photograph beneath), age 46, of Honduras, was engaged on the Carnival Valor as a stateroom steward when he tried to begin a dialog with a teenage passenger in a sauna. The sufferer then moved to a bathe space to keep away from the suspect when the alleged sexual conduct occurred. Instantly following the incident, the sufferer recognized the crew member to his father, who detained him with the help of different passengers till ship safety arrived.”
Carnival worker Yovany Sauzo-Batiz
Sauzo-Batiz was charged with sexual battery of an individual below 16 years of age and lewd and lascivious molestation.
There are numerous different prison sauna / steam room circumstances which you’ll be able to simply discover on-line.
To our data, cruise traces don’t present safety, supervision or monitoring of the general public saunas on their ships. Although many cruise ships have guidelines that state that friends should be at the very least 18 years previous to make the most of spa amenities, together with the sauna and steam rooms, Carnival’s coverage is here), most cruise traces don’t implement the coverage. No cruise line to our data warns dad and mom that there’s a hazard of sexual abuse by grownup passengers and crew members when minors use saunas and steam rooms throughout cruises.
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Picture credit score: Independence of the Seas– Kiran891 CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; sauna on Independence of the Seas – Beyond Ships; Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal and Jose Juan Prudencio Diaz Sauzo-Batiz – Miami-Dade County Police Division by way of Native Information 10; Yovany Sauzo-Batiz – Brevard Sheriff’s Workplace by way of WFTV.
