Twenty-seven cruise ship workers, including some from the Disney Cruise Line, were deported after having engaged with child pornography, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
The discovery was made last month, after CBP officers boarded eight cruise ships between April 23 and 27 as part of an ongoing child sexual exploitation material investigation, a CBP spokesperson said in a statement Monday.
The spokesperson said the agency determined 27 of the 28 crew members interviewed “were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography,” and that their visas were canceled and they were deported to their home countries. Twenty-six of the crew members interviewed were from the Philippines, one was from Portugal and another was from Indonesia, the spokesperson said. The agency said it would not be releasing their names.
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