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Next Disney Crew Member on Disney Dream Cruise Ship Arrested on Baby Pornography Fees

March 10, 2024
Aleesha Maclean

Today, the Miami New Instances, by way of Alexa DeLuca, reported that a 2nd Disney crew member on the Disney Aspiration cruise ship was arrested at Port Everglades for possession and transportation of kid pornography. Acting on strategies from the Nationwide Heart for Lacking and Exploited Kids, a Particular Agent with the Department of Homeland Protection (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), boarded the Disney cruise ship and arrested the 28 12 months-previous Disney crew member just after reviewing his world wide web gadgets and acquiring numerous supplies depicting graphic child sexual abuse “with young children between the approximate ages of 6 and 14.”

Two months back, we documented that a Homeland Stability job power arrested Disney crew member Alvin Gonzalez, age 49, on the Disney Aspiration cruise ship, after they positioned a video clip on his cell cellular phone which confirmed two children obtaining sexual intercourse. 

The Miami New Periods write-up, which mentions two other cruise ship perverts who have been arrested on child pornography fees, will come at a time “when allegations of cruise ship workers’ sexual misconduct involving small children have been in countrywide emphasis.” The other arrest pointed out by the New Times involved a different Filipino crew member used by Celeb Cruises aboard the Celebrity Silhouette as a youth counselor.

That case associated a 6 (6) year-outdated child who was getting a cruise with her mother and father aboard the Royal Caribbean-owned cruise ship when she was molested by a crew member identified as “CJ,” later on discovered as Cris John Pentinio Castor.  Her moms and dads had dropped the minor lady off at a “Camp at Sea program” at the youth heart on the cruise ship on the morning of November 27, 2023. The youth counselor inappropriately touched the youngster below her clothes “in the vicinity of her vagina” even though she performed a video clip game in the youth middle. When confronted by investigating FBI brokers, the crew member admitted that he experienced molested at the very least three (3) other small children in the youth facility on the Superstar cruise ship.

The other crew member talked about by the Miami New Periods was a Royal Caribbean crew member who described himself as a new music director of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Forty-four (44) yr-previous Dana Moran reportedly arrived to the focus of Australian Border Pressure officers previous June of 2023 when he flew into Brisbane Worldwide Airport. Following a baggage research at the airport, six digital units were being located and seized, five of which were afterwards determined to incorporate pretty much 600 visuals and movies depicting child abuse.
A single of the most egregious set of circumstances involving the sexual exploitation of kids associated two Princess ship staff on the Coral Princess who ended up sentenced to 45 decades in jail for their involvement in building and/or distributing baby pornography. A single of the adult men met a sixteen (16) calendar year-aged boy or girl who was having an Alaskan cruise with her mothers and fathers even though he was functioning as an assistant cruise director. He regularly texted and identified as the minor following she remaining the cruise and he afterwards organized to fulfill her in a lodge where he filmed possessing sex with the lady.

Daniel Scott Crow, used by Princess Cruises as an assistant cruise director, was sentenced in 2022 by Southern District of Florida Decide Jose Martinez to thirty (30) decades in jail for attractive an underage child to interact in sex with him and choose part in the manufacturing of baby pornography. Crow was 30-five (35) years of age when he satisfied the sixteen (16) yr previous youngster all through a cruise in July 2019. A press launch by the Office of Justice (DOJ) sets forth the fundamental information of the disturbing sexual crimes committed by Crow.

A 2nd Princess crew member, Angelo Victor Fernandes, from India, age 34, labored on the identical Princess cruise ship as Crow. Fernandes was friends with Crow and the two guys mentioned “obtaining small children for sexual intercourse.” Fernandes admitted to federal agents when he was arrested that he was sexually attracted to Crow and sent him sexually explicit films and kid pornography in trade for videos of Crow masturbating. The two crew members talked over travelling to sexually abuse youngsters as youthful as five years of age. Decide Aileen Cannon, of the Federal District Courtroom in Fort Pierce, Florida, sentenced Fernandes to 188 months (around 15 and1/2 years) in prison. A push release by the DOJ sets forth the fundamental points of the crimes committed by Fernandes.

You can browse about these two Princess Cruises staff members sentenced to put together jail phrases of 45 yrs below.

Sure, cruising with little ones presents dangers that most mother and father would not look at. Most cruise strains do not perform qualifications checks which include little one predator databases. Most cruise lines and Disney, in distinct, involve stringent confidentiality orders in sexual assault scenarios. So the general public does not listen to about many cases of sexual assault and molestation at sea. A U.S. Congressional report in 2013 identified that a third of claimed sexual assaults aboard cruise ships associated minors.

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Graphic credits: Disney Desire – Ajmexico from Melbourne, Usa – CC BY 2. commons / wikimedia Amiel Joseph Trazo – Broward Sheriff’s Place of work by using Miami New Moments Disney Aspiration – Ajmexico from Melbourne, United states – CC BY 2. commons / wikimedia Alvin Gonzalez – Broward County Sheriff’s Office via NBC-6 Miami Celebrity Silhouette – Arvid Olson/Flickr via Miami New Periods Celeb crew member – Facebook and BrowardMugShot on Instagram  Royal Caribbean cruise ship up coming to dana Moran short article – Courier Mail Dana Lachlan Moran – Facebook and Instagram Daniel Crow and Anglo Fernandes – nameless Coral Princess – Reuters: Marco Bello via ABC Australia