U.S. Homeland Safety arrested two crew members on cruise ships operated by Carnival Cruise Line once they had been in New Orleans two weeks in the past. In response to a newspaper in Information Orleans, Homeland Safety arrested Abdhul Rouvoof Shaik of India and Reza Heta Pratama of Indonesia for possession and transportation of kid pornography after they disembarked two completely different Carnival Cruise Line ships, Carnival Liberty (above proper) and Carnival Valor (above left), in New Orleans.
The arrests had been first reported by the Times Picayune after which picked up by USA TODAY. Neither publication supplied any data which might place the story within the context of the bigger drawback of kid pornography within the cruise business.
Not like different instances, I’ve not discovered arrest images and/or mug pictures of those Carnival crew members.
These arrests deliver the entire variety of crew members apprehended on cruise ships for youngster pornography to the unprecedented variety of fifteen (15) cruise ship workers in simply the primary six (6) months of this 12 months.
To date, crew members from 5 corporations have been arrested on youngster pornography expenses: Carnival – 6 (or 7); Royal Caribbean – 3; Disney – 3; Movie star – 1; and Holland America Line – 1. The employer of 1 crew member, Ferry Maryanto, who was arrested final month, was not recognized. He might have been employed by Carnival Cruise Line on both the Carnival Horizon or the Carnival Magic. He was arrested on the port of Miami on a day when two cruise ships operated by Carnival, one ship by Virgin Voyages and one ship by Norwegian Cruise Line had been in port.
The final six or seven crew members arrested on youngster pornography expenses had been all employed by Carnival Cruise Line. Two of 4 Carnival crew members arrested in early June on the port of Miami labored on the Carnival Conquest. Iputuagus Karnawan, a/ok/a Putu Karnawan (age 28)(from Indonesia), reportedly labored within the galley as a cook dinner on the Carnival Conquest. Imadewisma Dana (additionally age 28 and from Indonesia), additionally reportedly labored as a cook dinner on the Carnival Conquest.
Igedeboy Mardika (photograph under proper), a 28-year-old Indonesian nationwide, and Sreerag Vazhayil (photograph under left) , a 32-year-old Indian nationwide, had been additionally arrested for youngster pornography and had been additionally accused of possessing bestiality movies on the Carnival Cruise Line ship the place they labored (both the Carnival Horizon or Carnival Celebration).
Crackdown On Youngster Pornography By U.S. and Florida Legislation Enforcement in South Florida
Contemplating the excessive variety of crew members who’ve been arrested on cruise ships in South Florida within the final six months, there seems to be an effort by each state and federal regulation enforcement companies to research and prosecute individuals who possess and transport youngster pornography (and bestiality movies) on cruise ships. It’s doubtless that after regulation enforcement seizes a crew member’s iPhone and/or laptop, they get hold of proof akin to social media websites and web transmissions which share youngster pornography and/or bestiality photographs implicating a large variety of ship workers. A few of these crew members seem to commerce and/or trade photographs with different ship workers.
The arrest affidavit within the pending prison case no. 2:24-mj-00105-DM filed in federal courtroom for the Jap District of Louisiana states that crew member Shaik was a member of a bunch of males in a WhatsApp group who would share photographs of “kids having intercourse.” He would chat together with his pal from Indonesia and ship and obtain “porn movies” involving kids. The Indonesian pal was referred to within the arrest affidavit as a “co-conspirator.” Shaik waived his Miranda rights towards self-incrimination and admitted to the arresting particular agent on July 14th that he realized that the video included kids and that youngster pornography was unlawful.
It seems that crew member Pratama was straight implicated by Shaik and/or by transmissions on Shaik’s cell rhone. Homeland Safety arrested Pratama a number of days later, on July 18th.
Carnival allegedly terminated Pratama from his job and dismissed him from the ship following earlier sexual harassment complaints of an unspecified nature from his co-employees, as talked about in an arrest affidavit by a Homeland Safety Investigations particular agent. Pratama additionally reportedly waived his Miranda rights and admitted to acquiring the kid pornography photographs materials from a Telegram group.
It appears clear to me the federal and state regulation enforcement authorities are working with companies which use state-of-the-art surveillance software program the place consultants monitor youngster pornography and file-sharing websites to develop a large worldwide database to catch those that possess and share youngster abuse photographs. Learn: Inside the Surveillance Software Tracking Child Porn Offenders Across the Globe
It’s unprecedented that regulation enforcement in any specific port would arrest as many as a dozen crew members for youngster pornography. Earlier than this 12 months, solely ports exterior of the USA, akin to Canada, would arrest greater than a just some cruise ship workers for youngster pronography in any given 12 months. See for instance, Nabbed at Pier 21 – Another Crew Member Busted with Child Porn in Halifax, HAL Cruise Ship Musician Jailed for Child Pornography, Is Child Pornography Widespread on Cruise Ships?, Another Cruise Ship Employee Busted with Child Porn – This Time HAL Veendam, Another Carnival Crew Member Busted for Child Porn, and Costa Crew Member Caught With Child Pornography.
There isn’t a query that there was a change within the coverage of regulation enforcement to extend scrutinizing of cruise ships as a supply for youngster pornography.
You may learn extra about the issue of pornography on cruise ships right here: Epidemic of Child Pornography on Cruise Ships Continues As Two More Crew Members Are Arrested.
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Picture credit score: Carnival Valor – Mason Piscitelli – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; Carnival Liberty – Yankeesman312 CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; Cease Abuse Graphic – Stop Child Abuse Campaign.
