Disney’s Child-Predator Problem
Instead of promoting gender ideology, the company would be better served by addressing a longstanding history among its employees.
The Walt Disney Company has long presented itself as the voice for America’s children.
According to company lore, the animation studio was founded by a wise and kindly father figure, and its theme parks are “the happiest place on Earth” for kids.
In recent weeks, the company has entered the political debate about Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation and sought to establish itself as a moral arbiter on children’s education and sexuality.
But behind its meticulously curated self-image, Disney has had a long-standing problem with child predators gaining employment within the company and exploiting minors.
In 2014, reporters published a bombshell six-month investigation that discovered numerous Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children, attempting to meet minors for sex, and possession of child pornography over the previous eight years.
The stories are horrifying.
In one case, police set up a sting operation that nabbed three Disney employees who believed they were soliciting sex from minors.
Other Disney employees were found to have committed child sex crimes using the Internet. According to police and court records,manager Cedric Cuthbert was caught downloading child porn on a Disney work computer, employee Paul Fazio was convicted for downloading “multiple scenes of nude prepubescent children engaging in sexual activity with adults,” and William Marrero-Maldonado was charged with seven counts of promoting videos and photographs of the “sexual performance of a child.”
Why Disney?
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who oversaw some of these investigations, explained why child predators would choose the Magic Kingdom as a place of employment.
“Wherever you find children, you’ll find sexual predators,” he told reporters.
Discuss.
https://www.city-journal.org/disneys-child-predator-problem
Instead of promoting gender ideology, the company would be better served by addressing a longstanding history among its employees.
The Walt Disney Company has long presented itself as the voice for America’s children.
According to company lore, the animation studio was founded by a wise and kindly father figure, and its theme parks are “the happiest place on Earth” for kids.
In recent weeks, the company has entered the political debate about Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation and sought to establish itself as a moral arbiter on children’s education and sexuality.
But behind its meticulously curated self-image, Disney has had a long-standing problem with child predators gaining employment within the company and exploiting minors.
In 2014, reporters published a bombshell six-month investigation that discovered numerous Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children, attempting to meet minors for sex, and possession of child pornography over the previous eight years.
The stories are horrifying.
In one case, police set up a sting operation that nabbed three Disney employees who believed they were soliciting sex from minors.
Other Disney employees were found to have committed child sex crimes using the Internet. According to police and court records,manager Cedric Cuthbert was caught downloading child porn on a Disney work computer, employee Paul Fazio was convicted for downloading “multiple scenes of nude prepubescent children engaging in sexual activity with adults,” and William Marrero-Maldonado was charged with seven counts of promoting videos and photographs of the “sexual performance of a child.”
Why Disney?
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who oversaw some of these investigations, explained why child predators would choose the Magic Kingdom as a place of employment.
“Wherever you find children, you’ll find sexual predators,” he told reporters.
Discuss.
https://www.city-journal.org/disneys-child-predator-problem
