On April 8, 2025, we reported on the arrest of a Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) crew member on the Norwegian Bliss who was apprehended on the port of Los Angeles at 8:30 a.m. on April 4th for possession and transmission of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).
The Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement (FDLE) said in a press release that its investigation started virtually two years in the past (on July 24, 2023), “when brokers obtained a cybertip from the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Endangered Youngsters (NCMEC) about a web based account importing recordsdata depicting youngsters being sexually abused.” FDLE said that the uploads of kid sexual abuse supplies (in all probability movies) “originated from Pappa’s account that’s registered in Nassau County (FL), and that Pappas was employed by Norwegian Cruise Line.”
NCL has launched very restricted details about its pedophile ship worker engaged on its cruise ship. It launched this cursory assertion in response to an inquiry from USA TODAY concerning the arrest:
“The worker was dismissed from the corporate with a Do Not Rehire standing as we’ve zero tolerance for this conduct.”
NCL isn’t revealing the pervert’s job title, how lengthy he labored for NCL, or the likelihood that he has movies of youngsters who sailed on NCL cruise ships. We’ve inquired whether or not any NCL crew members know his job title or have entry to any images of him.
A number of NCL ship staff responded. All want to stay nameless fearing reprisal from NCL for talking with our agency. We’ve realized that Pappas labored because the “Head of Broadcast” (i.e., a broadcast technician) aboard NCL’s Norwegian Bliss cruise ship. A colleague of his on the ship wrote: “That is actually horrifying — this man was onboard with unfettered entry to youngsters and Wi-Fi (in his place as head of broadcast he had extra entry to WiFi than common crew) for your entire time he was beneath investigation.”
One among his colleagues offered us with a hyperlink to his Facebook page. He goes by “Banks Pappas” (Theo) and makes use of the {photograph} under on his dwelling web page.
We’re within the means of acquiring a replica of the court docket file in Florida (the place he shall be prosecuted for his intercourse crimes), as we had been unable to acquire any data or perhaps a mug shot from the felony and police recordsdata in Los Angeles.
We’re nonetheless making an attempt to find out how lengthy Pappas labored aboard NCL cruise ships or whether or not he labored for different cruise traces prior to now. If in case you have this data, we promise to guard your anonymity and won’t reveal your id beneath any circumstance.
April 16, 2025 Replace:
I’m informed by a dependable supply (a P&O Australia crew member) that Pappas “labored for P&O Australia as properly. He was video supervisor and made the cruise video again within the day. He was fired in 2012.”
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Picture credit score: Little one Sexual Abuse Supplies Picture – Addressing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM): A Comprehensive Perspective; Theodore Burbank Pappas, Jr., – Fb.
