The Miami-Dade Police Division arrested a passenger who disembarked from an unidentified cruise ship at PortMiami final weekend on costs of “buying little one sexual abuse materials on-line.”
Miami-Dade Police arrested Nicholas Gardener, age 24, of Brampton, Ontario who was initially held within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart on a $50,000 bond for 5 felony costs associated to the possession of kid sexual abuse supplies.
In response to Local News 10 in Miami, the arrest report signifies {that a} U.S. Customs and Border Safety officer searched Gardner’s cellphone and located three illicit movies and two illicit photos which depicted women between the ages of 5 and 8 being victimized.
There have been a major variety of arrests for sexual crimes on cruise ships by state and federal regulation enforcement officers in South Florida. A minimum of seventeen (17) crew members have been arrested in a seven month interval in 2024 for possession of kid pornography on cruise ships returning to ports primarily in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
The cruise crime data required by the Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act (CVSSA) from the third quarter of this 12 months (from July 1 – September 30) reveals that sexual assaults on cruise ships rose to 38 from 25 (from April 1 to June 30). Surprisingly, Disney Cruise Line led all cruise strains with 11 sexual assaults and rapes in simply three months. It’s unknown to the general public what number of of those sexual crimes concerned minors. (The cruise trade lobbied closely to keep away from having to reveal whether or not youngsters have been victimized whereas the U.S. Congress was enacting the CVSSA).
The CVSSA doesn’t disclose when a crew member or cruise visitor is arrested on costs of kid pornography. The general public is dependant on stories of the native information group reporting these kinds of crimes.
Taking a cruise with your loved ones exposes them to a major danger of a sexual crime. Sadly, enforcement typically is unduly involved with the popularity of the cruise trade and doesn’t disclose the title of a selected cruise ship when a sexual crime takes place.
The native information report of this crime (Gardener reportedly confessed) didn’t establish the title of the cruise ship. Final Saturday, six ships operated by 4 cruise strains have been on the port of Miami: Icon of the Seas, Independence of the Seas, Norwegian Pleasure, MSC Seascape, Carnival Magic, and Carnival Dawn.
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Picture credit: Photograph of Carnival, NCL and Royal Caribbean ships – Monetary Instances; Nicholas Gardener mug shot – Miami Dade Police through Native Information 10.
