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The Chronicle Herald (Halifax) reports an Indonesian crewman faces charges after customs
officers allegedly found images of child pornography on his computer.
Hendri Dharmawan, 29, an employee on the Carnival Triumph, was arrested
Tuesday while the ship was docked at Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront.
He was arraigned in Halifax provincial court Wednesday on a Customs Act
charge of smuggling child pornography into the country. On Friday,
investigators added a Criminal Code charge of possession of child
pornography. UPDATE - October 9: The Chronical Herald reports the crewman is awaiting sentencing/ The newspaper article says: Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency conducted a
routine search of Mr. Dharmawan as he and a couple of other crew
members were going back on board the ship at Pier 22. After finding
child pornography on Mr. Dharmawan’s iPhone, the border agents went to
his living quarters on the ship and examined his laptop computer and an
external hard drive. Altogether, officers found eight videos of child
pornography on Mr. Dharmawan’s devices. The 135 minutes of footage
depicted girls as young as eight and boys as young as 10 being abused. |
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