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A lawsuit filed against Royal Caribbean provides disturbing new details about an employee who placed hidden cameras in the bathrooms.
Last month, Royal Caribbean employee Arvin Joseph Mirasol pleaded guilty to producing child pornography and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He admitted to placing hidden cameras in passengers' private bathrooms and then posting the images and videos online.
He would also hide under their beds and filmed them while they showered.
When he was taken into custody back in February, police uncovered numerous videos of children between the ages of two and 17 on his electronic devices. The videos captured the victims in various states of undress.
Now, a lawsuit has been filed against the cruise line on behalf of passenger "Jane Doe" and "all other similarly situated passengers." The lawsuit claims that at least 960 people may have been victimized by Mirasol's hidden cameras. The lawsuit accuses Royal Caribbean of knowing about the issue for months but failing to do anything to prevent it from happening.
"Royal Caribbean became aware of this problem in March of 2023 when a hidden camera was found in a public bathroom on the pool deck of one of its ships, yet it has seemingly done nothing since then to protect its passengers from reoccurrences – like these instances which went on for nearly three months, over the course of 12 cruises, and involved up to 960 passengers including many children," Jason Margulies, an attorney with Lipcon, Margulies & Winkleman, P.A., representing the plaintiff, told Fox News.
"Who knows how many countless numbers of pornographic images of these unsuspecting passengers will be circulating on the internet forever because Royal Caribbean failed to protect their privacy and allowed Mirasol to make these passengers victims."
Royal Caribbean has not responded to the allegations in the lawsuit.