Two grownup cruise passengers have been arrested final Friday at PortMiami on expenses of sexually victimizing a 14 year-old boy on the Royal Caribbean Independence of the Seas, in accordance with quite a few native information stations.
In response to arrest studies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace , cruise passengers Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal (left picture), age 37, and Jose Juan Prudencio Diaz (proper picture), age 36, molested the boy within the public sauna of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, in accordance with Miami Native Information 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 expenses 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 rely of kid sexual battery and is being held within the Metrowest Detention Heart in Miami.
In response to the Day by day Mail, each males have been denied bond Saturday, as a prosecutor stated: ‘The defendant, on this case, appearing in live performance with one other defendant, they have been each on a cruise. This reveals that they tried to focus on a particular minor, and this may very well be carried out 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 Only one 12 months in the past, the Miami-Dade Police Division arrested a twenty-one (21) 12 months outdated man from Georgia for sexually propositioning a fourteen (14) year-old boy within the sauna of the Explorer of the Seas.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 stated 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 business will admit. There are various a whole lot of crimes which have occurred over time on the Royal Caribbean fleet – baby porn freaks, baby predators, and sexual deviants – each crew members and fellow passengers.”
You’ll be able to 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 scorching tub on the Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas cruise ship. When that boy obtained away, the grownup made temporary contact with one other boy. The person advised the arresting police investigators that he took the cruise on the Royal Caribbean ship so he may molest younger boys.
The latest incident final week follows the information from the Symphony of the Seas lasy 12 months the place a thirty-four (34) 12 months outdated 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 expenses of video voyeurism and baby pornography after his digicam and digital units indicated that he additionally videotaped kids 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 Employee Accused of Hiding Cameras in Loos to Spy on Visitors.
These kind 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 rely 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 Occasions.
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 (picture under), age 46, of Honduras, was engaged on the Carnival Valor as a stateroom steward when he tried to start out 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 various different prison sauna / steam room circumstances which you’ll simply discover on-line.
To our information, cruise traces don’t present safety, supervision or monitoring of the general public saunas on their ships. Regardless that many cruise ships have guidelines that state that company have to be no less than 18 years outdated to make the most of spa services, together with the sauna and steam rooms, Carnival’s coverage is right here), most cruise traces don’t implement the coverage. No cruise line to our information 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 – Past 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.
