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Fomer NCL employee locked up after seducing teenage passenger
A former Norwegian Cruise Lines assistant cruise director has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he had sex with and exchanged explicit photos with a 16-year-old passenger.
Bosnian Senad Djedovic, 29, met the girl from Minnesota during a seven-day cruise on the Norwegian Star, which departed from Tampa, Florida on January 29.
She was travelling w ith her parents and met Djedovic, who was engaged at the time, after a stop at Costa Maya in Mexico. He admitted to a sexual encounter with the girl on a staircase and the pair later exchanged emails, some of a sexual nature.
Investigators later found more than 600 explicit images on Djedovic’s computer, some of children younger than 12, according to court papers.
Djedovic came to the attention of authorities after he showed several crew members pictures of the girl, telling them she was 16, according to the complaint. The cruise line’s internal security team conducted an investigation and alerted the FBI.
Djedovic pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on June 18. He was sentenced in the US on Monday to nine years in federal prison on a child pornography charge.
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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