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Cruise ship passenger arrested for possession of child pornography

FBI arrested a man from Idaho who took a Royal Caribbean cruise from Port Canaveral. The Federal authorities said that they have found thousands child pornographic  files on his laptop during routine check. According to a complaint filed in Orlando federal court, when authorities inspected passengers onboard Royal Caribbean's Monarch of the Seas cruise ship Dec. 10, they encountered Gary Lee Reed.

Reed's laptop contained about 1,162 images and videos of child pornography and more than 300 children in the files have been identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

when indicted by Orlando federal grand jury on a child pornography charge, Gary Lee Reed said that he has viewed child pornography for many years. The videos and pictures in his possession include sexual abuse on children  and babies.