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14. But authorities have no evidence
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 11:02 AM
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from the article:

"Soriano Versoza said the cases in Norfolk are unlike previous cases of cruise ship employees involved with child pornography...
When accused crew members ask to see evidence that would incriminate them, authorities have nothing to show, she said."

And kind of funny, don't you think, that possession of child porn is limited only to the Filipinos and not to the thousand other foreign workers on the boat. I think this is specific targeting of the lowest workers on the rung, the ones who are most helpless to defend themselves. Plus, of course, racism.

Also, when ICE boarded the ship, how did they know ahead of time that these people possessed child porn? Or did they just pull the workers they wanted to abuse and make the accusations after the fact?

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