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A youth counselor involved in a Celebrity Cruises shipment has admitted to sexually abusing several young people on board, the government says in a court filing.
In an affidavit filed last week in Florida federal court, an FBI agent alleges that Cris John Pentinio Castor sexually abused minors while running toward the youth center on the Celebrity Cruises “Silhouette” shipment.
Castor declined to comment on the allegations.
Castor is a Filipino citizen who applied for the shipment since August, according to the document.
Court documents imply that the parents of a 6-year-old girl, whose call is mentioned in the file, went to the youth center’s program director after picking up their daughter from the center on Nov. 27.
His daughter then told the member that Castor touched his “private parts,” pointing to his genital area, according to the affidavit.
When interviewed by a forensic expert three days later, the child said that Castor had touched her under her clothes, in the area “where the pee comes from,” while she was playing a video game, the filing says.
Security footage from the youth center shows Castor and the boy sitting next to each other, and the view is from behind, Castor can be seen sighing down the boy’s groin, the affidavit states.
Family members on a Caribbean cruise from Florida a week earlier, according to court documents.
Castor later admitted to police that he had touched the girl’s vagina and had molested at least three other minors, according to the record.
“We have zero tolerance for this behavior,” a representative for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, which owns Celebrity Cruises, told Business Insider. “We reported this to law enforcement and terminated the crew member, and we will continue to fully cooperate with authorities.”
Castor now faces a federal rate of abusive sexual interference with a child under the age of 12.