U.S. Homeland Safety arrested two crew members on cruise ships operated by Carnival Cruise Line once they have been in New Orleans two weeks in the past. In line with 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 totally different Carnival Cruise Line ships, Carnival Liberty (above proper) and Carnival Valor (above left), in New Orleans.
The arrests have been first reported by the Instances Picayune after which picked up by USA TODAY. Neither publication offered any data which might place the story within the context of the bigger downside of kid pornography within the cruise trade.
Not like different circumstances, I’ve not discovered arrest images and/or mug pictures of those Carnival crew members.
These arrests deliver the overall variety of crew members apprehended on cruise ships for youngster pornography to the unprecedented variety of fifteen (15) cruise ship staff in simply the primary six (6) months of this yr.
To this point, crew members from 5 corporations have been arrested on youngster pornography fees: 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 have been in port.
The final six or seven crew members arrested on youngster pornography fees have 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 prepare dinner on the Carnival Conquest. Imadewisma Dana (additionally age 28 and from Indonesia), additionally reportedly labored as a prepare dinner on the Carnival Conquest.
Igedeboy Mardika (picture beneath proper), a 28-year-old Indonesian nationwide, and Sreerag Vazhayil (picture beneath left) , a 32-year-old Indian nationwide, have been additionally arrested for youngster pornography and have 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 Little one Pornography By U.S. and Florida Regulation 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 legislation enforcement companies to analyze and prosecute individuals who possess and transport youngster pornography (and bestiality movies) on cruise ships. It’s possible that when legislation 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 staff. A few of these crew members seem to commerce and/or alternate photographs with different ship staff.
The arrest affidavit within the pending felony 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 gaggle of males in a WhatsApp group who would share photographs of “youngsters having intercourse.” He would chat together with his buddy from Indonesia and ship and obtain “porn movies” involving youngsters. The Indonesian buddy 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 youngsters and that youngster pornography was unlawful.
It seems that crew member Pratama was instantly 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 legislation enforcement authorities are working with companies which use state-of-the-art surveillance software program the place specialists monitor youngster pornography and file-sharing websites to develop an enormous worldwide database to catch those that possess and share youngster abuse photographs. Learn: Contained in the Surveillance Software program Monitoring Little one Porn Offenders Throughout the Globe
It’s unprecedented that legislation enforcement in any explicit port would arrest as many as a dozen crew members for youngster pornography. Earlier than this yr, solely ports exterior of the USA, akin to Canada, would arrest greater than a only a few cruise ship staff for youngster pronography in any given yr. See for instance, Nabbed at Pier 21 – One other Crew Member Busted with Little one Porn in Halifax, HAL Cruise Ship Musician Jailed for Little one Pornography, Is Little one Pornography Widespread on Cruise Ships?, One other Cruise Ship Worker Busted with Little one Porn – This Time HAL Veendam, One other Carnival Crew Member Busted for Little one Porn, and Costa Crew Member Caught With Little one Pornography.
There isn’t a query that there was a change within the coverage of legislation enforcement to extend scrutinizing of cruise ships as a supply for youngster pornography.
You possibly can learn extra about the issue of pornography on cruise ships right here: Epidemic of Little one Pornography on Cruise Ships Continues As Two Extra 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 – Cease Little one Abuse Marketing campaign.
