SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities have canceled the visas of greater than two dozen individuals, together with some who labored on a Disney Cruise Line ship, amid allegations they possessed or had seen baby sexual abuse photographs.
U.S. Customs and Border Safety stated in a press release Friday that they boarded eight cruise ships in late April and decided that 27 individuals, most from the Philippines, had been concerned in “the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing” of kid sexual abuse photographs.
The company canceled the visas of these concerned and returned them to their dwelling nations, the assertion stated.
The company didn’t say if any passengers aboard the ships had been believed to be victims. It additionally didn’t say which ships brokers boarded, why these ships had been focused or the place the operations occurred. The assertion stated no extra info was accessible.
Media retailers reported at the very least among the ships had docked in San Diego.
Disney Cruise Line in a press release stated the corporate has a “zero-tolerance coverage for this sort of conduct and absolutely cooperated with regulation enforcement. Whereas the vast majority of these people weren’t from our cruise line, those that had been are not with the corporate.”