Disney breaks silence after staff dragged off cruise ship as part of massive child porn sting

The Disney company has spoken out after immigration officials nabbed several of their staff off one of their cruise ships in San Diego last month as part of a massive child porn sting.

Customs and Border Protection told the California Post they arrested 28 workers off five different vessels between April 23 and 25 as part of ongoing child sexual exploitation material enforcement operations.

Disney said the majority of those apprehended were not from their company while reiterating their cooperation with law enforcement.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told The Post.

“While the majority of these individuals were not from our cruise line, those who were are no longer with the company.”

The company would not specify the exact number of Disney employees arrested. The immigration officials previously arrested the workers in front of stunned cruise ship passengers.

Passenger Dharmi Mehta took a video of the moment, saying one of those detained was her server during the five-day trip last month.

“He was full in uniform, which was in a blazer, tie. Some of the other employees were still in their chef’s uniforms with their name tags on it,” Mehta said. She called the arrests “really unsettling.”

Ten crewmembers from the Disney ship were arrested, immigration groups claimed.

CBP told The California Post that 26 of the crew members from the five ships were from the Philippines, one from Portugal, and one from Indonesia.

The agency confirmed “all subjects were involved in either the receipt, possession, transportation, distribution, or viewing of CSEM or child pornography,” cancelled their visas, and are removing them from the country. 

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