Cruise Ship Passenger Sentenced in Child Porn Case

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Jim Walker

The Virginia Pilot newspaper reports that a passenger was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for downloading child pornography. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested passenger Timothy David Webb, 32, after he disembarked Royal Caribbean's cruise ship Cruise passenger sex offenderGrandeur of the Seas at the Norfolk cruise ship terminal.  Webb is a convicted sex offender and has a conviction in 2000 for sodomy in the state of Virginia.

The customs agents pulled Webb from a line of passengers disembarking the cruise ship and  searched his laptop, which contained child pornography videos.

Caught By U.S. Federal Agents - Not By the Cruise Line  

I have written about the problem of crew members, as well as passengers, with child porno on cruise ships.  They are usually caught, not by the cruise line, but when custom agents view their laptops or iPhones and discover the pornographic images. 

In an articles entitled "Perverts, Child Predators and Cruise Ships" and "Another Crew Member Arrested for Child Pornography," I discussed crew members from Carnival and NCL cruise ships recently being arrested in Canada for pornography on their laptops and computers.

The web site "Cruise Ship Sex Offenders" lists some of the sex offenders who have worked or sailed on cruise ships. 

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Another Crew Member Arrested for Child Pornography

Posted on October 24, 2009 by Jim Walker

Canadian Border Patrol arrested another crew member after finding child pornography on his cell phone. NCL crew member Menandro Lim Lanzar, age 31, from the Philippines was arraigned in Halifax on a charge of importing child pornography.

Mr. Lanzar is employed as a quarter master on the NCL cruise ship Norwegian Jewel.

Canada's Chronicle Herald reported on the incident is a story "Cruise Ship Worker Caught with Child Porn, Police Say."

I first read the story in a CruiseBruise story entitled "Crew Member Arrested with Child Pornography - Norwegian Cruise Line's Jewel."

In an article last week entitled Perverts, Child Predators and Cruise Ships, I reported on a nearly identical case where a Carnival crew member from the cruise ship Triumph was arrested in Halifax for child pornography which was found on his cell phone and on his computer on the cruise ship.

Parents who take their children cruising need to realize that cruise ships are not immune from perverts and child predators.  The "background checks" performed by the cruise line's hiring agents are a joke.  Families that cruise need to be particularly careful with male cabin attendants around children.  Don't leave your kids alone in the cabin.

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