A twenty-two year-old man from Huntsville, Alabama, was arrested for possession and transportation of child pornography at Port Everglades on Saturday, after he got off the Majestic Princess, according to Local 10 News.
Federal customs officers conducted a search of Samuel Wolfe Peterson’s cellphone and laptop found about 20 videos of victims as young as toddlers being raped, sodomized and otherwise sexually abused.
(Samuel Wolfe Peterson via Broward County Sherriff’s Office via Local News 10)
Custom officials said Peterson admitted to possessing the illicit videos and admitted to sharing a “violent” video “depicting an infant” online.
Peterson admitted to receiving child sexual abuse material from about “four or five minors” aged 14 to 16. He also admitted to meeting one of of the minors for “sexual contact,” according to the criminal complaint filed in the federal court for the Southern District of Florida (Fort Lauderdale). The court filing reveal that Peterson was read and waved his Miranda rights and readily admitted that his possessed child pornography.
There have been over 100 arrests of crew members and passengers for possessing child pornography on cruise ships in the last year,.
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