A Stafford County man has been sentenced to seven years in federal jail for bringing child pornography on a cruise ship in Florida, in line with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Christopher Michael Ratten, 32, acquired the sentence this month in federal court docket in Orlando, court docket information present. He pleaded responsible in October to transporting child intercourse abuse photos.
According to the proof, Ratten flew from Washington to Florida on Sept. 4, 2021, the place he boarded a industrial cruise ship in Port Canaveral. The cruise ship stopped in the Bahamas earlier than returning to Port Canaveral on Sept. 9.
Homeland Security investigators searched Ratten’s cellular phone upon his return and located child intercourse abuse photos on the cellphone. Further forensic testing confirmed that Ratten had greater than 4,500 photos and movies depicting things like sexual abuse of infants and toddlers, together with bestiality.
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“This deviant fed his perversion through a vast and rapidly growing collection of explicit images and videos of children and animals being sexually abused,” Homeland Security particular agent David Pezzutti mentioned. “Thanks to [investigators], we were able to fully investigate and prosecute this predator’s abhorrent behavior.”