A previous crew member of Royal Caribbean International has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for recording guests, including young children, with hidden cameras while they were unclothed.

Arvin Joseph Mirasol, aged 34, received his sentence on Wednesday after admitting to producing child pornography, as stated in a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Mirasol was arrested in March on federal charges relating to child pornography, facing six counts of video voyeurism in Florida after a guest discovered a hidden camera placed under the bathroom sink on the Symphony of the Seas ship. Mirasol, a Philippine national, had been employed as a stateroom attendant on the ship.

According to prosecutors, law enforcement officials uncovered “numerous videos depicting children in various states of undress” during a search of Mirasol’s electronic devices, including footage of him installing a camera in a passenger’s bathroom. The recorded children were between the ages of 2 and 17 years.

“As per the agreed-upon factual proffer, Mirasol had been placing cameras in guest cabins since December 2023,” the news release stated. “He would enter guests’ rooms while they were showering and hide under beds to secretly record them coming out of the shower.”

An attorney representing Mirasol chose not to comment on the sentencing. Royal Caribbean Group, the parent company of the cruise line, has previously informed YSL News that they “immediately” alerted law enforcement about the crime and terminated Mirasol’s employment.

“We have a strict no tolerance policy towards this kind of unacceptable conduct,” the company stated in a release following his arrest.

Recently, Mirasol is one of several cruise line employees arrested on charges related to pornography, including those from Carnival Cruise Line and Disney Cruise Line.

However, Anthony Salisbury, a special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Miami, informed YSL News in August that incidents of child exploitation have seen a significant increase across all sectors, not just within the cruise industry.

“If there’s an upward trend overall, we can expect the same in cruise ships,” he remarked.