Filipino cruise ship employee convicted over hidden cameras in guest rooms

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Don Tagala

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A US federal judge in Florida sentenced a Filipino to 30 years in federal prison for planting multiple hidden cameras in cruise ship guest rooms he used to work at, to record videos of naked girls.Thirty-four-year-old Arvin Joseph Mirasol of Batangas, a stateroom attendant who serviced passenger cabins, pleaded guilty to serially recording videos of young girls as soon as he started working on the Symphony of the Seas in December 2023.Court documents stated that investigators found pornographic videos on a USB stick owned by Mirasol containing a number of videos of naked females in cruise ship bathrooms as well as videos of child porn.Investigators said that the focus of the videos was on the children&#x27;s genital areas and Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents identified children in the videos range from two to 17 years old.&quot;I want to control it but I can&#x27;t,&quot; Mirasol told federal investigators, according to court documents.The former cruise ship worker also admitted to investigators that he places cameras in the rooms of guests that he likes and that he would choose teenage girls 16 and over.He also admitted that he was aware that what he was doing was illegal and yet “admitted that he would enter the rooms and hide under the bed while recording them naked with his cellular device.”Court sentencing document showed that Mirasol has been committed to the US Bureau of Prisons for a total of 360 months (30 years) and was recommended that he is locked up in a facility that provides psychological counselling and sex offender treatment.A US government inmate finder shows Mirasol is currently imprisoned at the Federal Detention Center in Miami, Florida.Mirasol&#x27;s public defender, on September 13, electronically filed an appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the eleventh circuit from the final judgement and sentence.

A US federal judge in Florida sentenced a Filipino to 30 years in federal prison for planting multiple hidden cameras in cruise ship guest rooms he used to work at, to record videos of naked girls.

A US federal judge in Florida sentenced a Filipino to 30 years in federal prison for planting multiple hidden cameras in cruise ship guest rooms he used to work at, to record videos of naked girls.

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Filipino cruise ship employee convicted over hidden cameras in guest rooms

Filipino cruise ship employee convicted over hidden cameras in guest rooms

Don Tagala,

ABS-CBN News

Published Sep 18, 2024 01:08 AM PHT

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