A Disney Cruise Line worker was recently arrested on child pornography charges.becoming the cruise company’s third crew member to face similar accusations this year.
U.S. Border Control and Homeland Security agents arrested Tirso Neri, 44, of the Philippines, on Monday after discovering that He had sexually explicit images and videos of children as young as 9 years old on his phone.according to a criminal complaint, Local 10 News reported.
The investigation into Neri, who was a crew member on the Disney Dream ship, began Dec. 18 after agents boarded the ship as it arrived at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from the Bahamas and searched the ship’s cabin. suspicious.
The agents confiscated two phones in Neri’s possession and discovered “numerous sexually explicit photographs and videos of young children whose ages could not be definitively determined”the complaint states.
It was later revealed that Neri had a folder on a device with the name of an underage victim. The folder contained several explicit photographs and videos of the minor, as well as a photograph of her Philippine passport that revealed her date of birth, confirming that she was 17 years old at the time the material was taken.
Neri told officers in Port Everglades that he downloaded adult pornography and purchased links containing explicit content from different group chats on Telegram and Facebook Messenger.
He claimed he received the folder with the 17-year-old’s images and videos from one of the group chats and saved it on his phone without looking at what it contained.
However, a forensic review of his phone later determined that the images were saved and viewed by the phone’s user.
Other videos found on Neri’s phone allegedly show a boy, between 10 and 12 years old, having sexual relations with a girl between 12 and 14 years old and a young girl naked with a man along with the text “9 years delicious”, written in Filipino on the screen.
Neri was charged with possession of child pornography and transportation of child pornography. He is being held at Broward’s main jail.
“In accordance with our zero-tolerance policy for this type of alleged behavior, this individual is no longer with the company,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Two other Disney Cruise Line employees, Alvin Gonzales, 49, and Amiel Trazo, 28, were arrested and charged in January with felony possession of child pornography. Gonzales and Trazo are also from the Philippines and worked aboard the Disney Dream.
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