A Royal Caribbean stateroom attendant on the Symphony of the Seas was sentenced by a federal courtroom choose to 30 years in jail for producing little one pornography.
Arvin Joseph Mirasol, age 34, a citizen of the Philippines, was sentenced in Miami federal courtroom yesterday.
Throughout a cruise from Fort Lauderdale in late February, an grownup visitor who was touring with members of her household found a small spy digicam (lower than the scale of 1 / 4) hidden of their lavatory. The tiny digicam was positioned instantly beneath the sink and was positioned to document individuals utilizing the bathroom. The visitor instantly reported the spy digicam to visitor providers and safety officers ultimately responded. Whereas safety was current within the friends’ cabin, Mirasol appeared within the cabin and admitted that he owned the digicam. The friends have been savvy sufficient to document the situation of the digicam in addition to Mirasol’s feedback when he returned to the cabin.
Upon the Royal Caribbean cruise ship’s return to Port Everglades on March third, Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) and Customs and Border Safety (CBP) brokers searched Mirasol’s electronics, “uncovering quite a few movies of kids in numerous levels of undress,” in line with Native Information 7.
Federal brokers found “quite a few movies of bare females” in addition to pictures of kid sexual abuse whereas taking a look at his cellphone, an SD card and USB stick. One video confirmed Mirasol putting in a digicam in a cruise visitor’s lavatory.
Mirasol started working as a cabin attendant for Royal Caribbean in December of 2023. The investigation revealed that Mirasol had been ‘secretly recording passengers, together with youngsters as younger as 2 years outdated” since he started engaged on the Royal Caribbean ship three months earlier.
In keeping with federal investigators, Mirasol would enter friends’ rooms “whereas they have been showering and conceal underneath their beds to document them exiting the bathe.”
Along with the federal felony prices of manufacturing little one pornography, Mirasol was additionally charged with six counts of video voyeurism in state courtroom after the Broward Sheriff’s Workplace interviewed him.
Little one pornography and using spy cameras on cruise ships have grow to be a selected downside within the final 12 months. This incident is only one of at the least sixteen incidents in a interval of six months the place crew members engaged on cruise ships have been arrested on little one pornography prices.
Up to now, crew members from 5 corporations have been arrested on little one pornography prices: Carnival – 6 (or 7)(see rationalization beneath*); Royal Caribbean – 4; Disney – 3; Movie star – 1; and Holland America Line – 1.
We’re conscious of at the least two incidents circumstances the place spy cameras have been positioned on cruise ships to movie unsuspecting friends. One case concerned the Carnival Fantasy:
And one latest incident concerned Royal Caribbean’s Concord of the Seas simply final Could:
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Picture credit: Symphony of the Seas – Darthvadrouw – CC BY-SA 4.0 commons / wikimedia; Arvin Joseph Mirasol – Broward County Sheriff’s Workplace through Information 7; headline textual content – Information 7.
*The employer of 1 crew member, Ferry Maryanto, who was arrested in June for little one pornography, 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 operated by Virgin Voyages and one ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Line have been in port.
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