by Christopher F. Rufo
The Walt Disney Company has long presented itself as the voice for America’s children. According to company lore, the animation studio was founded by a wise and kindly father figure, and its theme parks are “the happiest place on Earth” for kids. In recent weeks, the company has entered the political debate about Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation and sought to establish itself as a moral arbiter on children’s education and sexuality.
But behind its meticulously curated self-image, Disney has had a long-standing problem with child predators gaining employment within the company and exploiting minors. In 2014, reporters at CNN published a bombshell six-month investigation that discovered at least 35 Disney employees had been arrested for sex crimes against children, attempting to meet minors for sex, and possession of child pornography over the previous eight years.
The stories are horrifying. In one case, police set up a sting operation that nabbed three Disney employees who believed they were soliciting sex from minors. Robert Kingsolver, who oversaw ride repairs at Disney World, enticed someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl for sex in a private residence. Joel Torres, another Disney employee, allegedly brought condoms with him to have sex with a 14-year-old child. And Allen Treaster, a concierge at the park’s Animal Kingdom Lodge, went to meet a 14-year-old boy to “fulfill a fantasy” of being a “Big Teddy Bear for younger chaser.” In all three cases, the men were met and then arrested by police, who had set up the trap to catch child predators in the Orlando region. Kingsolver denied the charges; Treaster admitted that he had molested a 15-year-old boy a few weeks prior to his arrest.
Other Disney employees were found to have committed child sex crimes using the Internet. According to police and court records, custodial manager Cedric Cuthbert was caught downloading child porn on a Disney work computer, giftshop employee Paul Fazio was convicted for downloading “multiple scenes of nude prepubescent children engaging in sexual activity with adults,” and security guard William Marrero-Maldonado was charged with seven counts of promoting videos and photographs of the “sexual performance of a child.”
Why Disney? Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who oversaw some of these investigations, explained why child predators would choose the Magic Kingdom as a place of employment. “Wherever you find children, you’ll find sexual predators,” he told reporters. Most employees “work at Disney because they want a good, stable job for a great company, but there is always a few that are there because they can see children. They can live in a child’s world.”
The evidence suggests he is right. Kingsolver, the Disney repairman who believed he was arranging sex with a minor female, told his perceived victim in a chat room that he “really enjoy[s] giving oral” and used the Disney brand to build trust. “I work for Disney so I love to see dads having fun with their daughters,” he wrote. “I believe in treating a lady like a princess. I treat ladies with respect because that is how I hope my daughter gets treated.” Another Disney employee, Patrick Holgerson, who was caught sending nude photos and having explicit chats with law enforcement officers posing as a 13-year-old boy, told investigators: “I just have a strong connection with kids. I like working with kids. I just enjoy helping them grow.”
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Disney has claimed to have “extensive measures in place” to provide a safe environment for children, but there are reasons to doubt it. Even after the CNN report, Disney has seen a steady stream of employees caught in the dragnet for child predators. In 2019, police arrested a Disney cruise “youth host” for molesting a ten-year-old boy in the ship’s “Oceaneer Kids Lab” and, later that year, arrested another Disney cruise employee for raping a girl “over 100 times” at her home starting when she was 11 years old. (The charges regarding the molestation of the ten-year-old boy were later dropped when the parents did not want to bring the child in for testimony at trial.) Since then, three Disney employees have been arrested for soliciting sex with minors, two have been arrested on 40 total counts of child pornography, and four more were arrested earlier this month in a sting operation targeting “human trafficking, child predators, and prostitution.”
What this shows is what happens when the gay community is given a shelter and then fed victims. They make the absolute MOST of their opportunity. Perhaps it is the environment of Disney itself that draws this kind of LGBTQ person or maybe the demented predator is a greater proportion of the gay community than I thought, but combined with the left’s encouragement of any and all deviant activity and declaring it a “protected right”, the depravations are becoming an epidemic.
I wonder who Disney supports for Supreme Court Justice?
When my oldest brother was a late teen he took a job at Disney in Anaheim.
He was outfitted as one of the 7 dwarves.
The head of the costuime came down to his waist.
The belt was at his knees.
Little kids grabbed him around that belt area and hugged him all day long.
Their little heads were in his crotch.
He quit after a week.
But the perverts he met wearing some of the other dwarf costumes loved their job.
Today, Florida it considering removing the special privileges they gave Disney to be its own government in areas like property development, water control, public utilities, law enforcement, and fire protection.
Good.
Yeah what if…
Disney’s Pedo Problem is Really Bad
With Governor DeSantis’ anti-grooming law in the news, the world is witnessing Disney have a complete freak-out over more barriers making it more difficult to sexually warp young children for their satanic pleasures.
The push to normalize mental disorders onto children is simply a means to soften them up for easier exploitation. It’s why I confidently say that a majority of public school teachers and academics are mentally deranged and should be as far away from children as possible.
It’s why I consider the act of sending your kids to a public school as child abuse. The same demons freaking out over DeSantis’ anti-grooming bill are the same ones warping your children in the government school system.
As for Disney, this pedo problem has been ongoing. The video below is an excellent dive into Disney, how it connects to Epstein, and how Trump and guys like DeSantis are the worst enemies of the satanic pedos.
This video was posted in August of 2020, but I promise there’s a lot you didn’t know and you’ll never look at Disney the same.
Disneys Massive Media Empire (Documentary) (rumble.com)
Gov. Ron DeSantis Announces to End Disney World’s Special Tax Privilege and Law Exemptions (VIDEO)
BREAKING: Disney is a guest in Florida. Today, we remind them. @GovDeSantis just expanded the Special Session so I could file HB3C which eliminates Reedy Creek Improvement District, a 50 yr-old special statute that makes Disney to exempt from laws faced by regular Floridians.
BREAKING: Florida Senate Passes Legislation to End Disney’s Tax Privilege and Special Self-Governing Status
Disney has 190,000 employees. You’ve cited cases involving a total of only nine pedophiles.
DeSantis is demonizing Disney because they had the audacity to take issue with his bone-headed, regressive social legislation. There’s a FAR greater incidence of pedophilia among employees of the religious institution he supports. He’s simply posturing and pandering to his base by various means that are going to produce a lot of negative consequences for the people of his state.
what are you talking about?
The last paragraph of the article posted at the top of this thread. Did I miscount?
How is this any different than gun control zealots suing gun manufacturers out of business for what criminals do with their product? Well… there is ONE important difference; Disney is opposing legislation that protects children from sexual predators because Disney is in the sexual predator business.
No a child is much more likely to be molested at school or by an educator look it up.
Pandering to parents even Democrats have kids and some have a sense of decency, not you groomer.
DeSantis is demonizing Disney because they had the audacity to take issue with his bone-headed, regressive social legislation.
They are pushing a religion and grooming children to be deviants so their existing deviants can pretend the world is all like them.
There is no equivalency. They are not airing out false-gender ideologies to Billions of children world-wide.
Try again, groomer.
That Disney is “grooming” children is a LIE that’s going to cost Florida taxpayers $1 Billion per year in lost services provided to Orange and Osceola counties by Disney.
Even if that was true, which is isn’t, it’s a small price to pay to protect our children against a deviant, godless ideology that would see them reduced to monkey humping each other rather than dignified and sovereign human beings.
Florida republicans have voted to repeal Disney’s special district status. leaving Florida taxpayers to pick up the tab for $1 Billion per year in public services that the special district currently provides to Orange and Osceola counties. Way to go, DeSantis!
Elect idiots, and this is what happens.
It’s a good decision by DeSantis.
Disney: play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
Now the propaganda campaign by Leftist drones about how “taxpayers” will now pay a Billion.
No they won’t.
And since when did Leftists care about raising taxes? Biden is printing money, and Leftists love it.
Perhaps Disney should not have embraced this moronic gender-religion and actually served their customers?
Glad they are paying the price for destroying our culture. They are NOT wanted.
DeSantis gives us hope that strong leaders still exist in our country.
The Old World, 20th Century Backwards Left is desperate to re-brand themselves and pretend they can have the “NEW” world order.
Few have learned that there is no point in worrying about what the lying, corrupt, leftist media says about you. Just do what is right. The PEOPLE will see it.
Just like Trump.
Florida taxpayers will pay the price of DeSantis’s lies and posturing. Around a billion a year. Maybe it will be worth it to see he and Trump tear into each other as 2024 approaches.
It’s a good decision by DeSantis.
Disney: play stupid games, get stupid prizes.
Now the propaganda campaign by Leftist drones about how “taxpayers” will now pay a Billion.
No they won’t.
And since when did Leftists care about raising taxes? Biden is printing money, and Leftists love it.
Perhaps Disney should not have embraced this moronic gender-religion and actually served their customers?
Glad they are paying the price for destroying our culture. They are NOT wanted.
A billion? where does that number come from?
Disneyland Resort “paid more than $125 million in taxes, bonds, levies, fees that was back in 2017 on 85 acres of resort.
What about their “fair share” as the left is always crying about? Why should Florida residents not get the money in the coffers?
greg has no proof, but will keep lying. “A Billion….A Billion…”
Small price to pay if it is.
Stop f*cking kids, greg.
39 square miles is the size property owned by Disney world, taxes on that much land 1/2 is developed sounds like a cash cow for Floridas residents.
You’re the ones who seem to have perversion on their minds constantly. There’s probably a reason.
These are some of the mentally deficient slime you leftists want to have access to our children:
https://freebeacon.com/media/10-very-normal-people-taylor-lorenz-doesnt-want-libs-of-tiktok-to-expose/
Perversions would not be a topic were we not discussing Democrat policies and agenda.
Apparently, for leftists, all that is required to be able to sexually abuse children is a fee. As long as Disney pays a fee, they can employ sexual predators and oppose legislation that protects school children from sexual predators.
What did DeSantis lie about? The entire left lied about the Child Protection bill, calling it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, as if it was targeting gays and banning them. YOU people are the posturing liars. As usual.
Uh… NO. It’s still the Disney resort. Disney can provide the services. They just don’t get their tax exemptions anymore.
Why do you suppose Disney LIED about the Child Protection bill?
04/21/22 – Obama, today, at Stanford University, on the topic of disinformation
Here’s a link to the entire speech, should you care to hear it.
Sure we remember”if you like your doctor” and much more disinformation out of his lying mouth.
No problem. Everything Obama said today would be over your heads anyway.
Losing the insurance I had from work sure didn’t go over my head.
“Obamacare will not raise your taxes one thin dime.”
The Supreme Court deems Obamacare a tax so it can survive.
https://1stamender.com/article.php?articlenumber=1412&fbclid=IwAR36L-_EN0JSVlFwP8YsHdXXuJMzVD9Ry9Cw7R92Yfj6CEUh584ROPY4pN0
Yeah, Obama should teach a seminar on disinformation.
It’s Finally Time for GOP Lawmakers to Expose the Dark Side of the Disney Regime Once and For All
April 21, 2022 (20h ago)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just struck a heroic blow against Disney with the recent passage of a bill that would dissolve Disney’s de facto private government and threaten the numerous tax perks that go along with it:
Many Americans might be surprised to learn that Disney’s war against DeSantis’ anti-groomer law exists within a context of a long history of questionable conduct on the part of the company. Few these days remember that “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer wrote a bombshell investigative exposé in 1999 on Walt Disney World called “Disney: The Mouse Betrayed.”
The explosive book caught the eye of Brian Ross, ABC’s top investigative reporter. He landed an exclusive contract with the publisher of the book and quickly began working with Schweizer on a piece for the news show 20/20.
Schweizer’s book alleged very serious safety and hiring problems at Florida’s Walt Disney World, and also centered on mass corruption, greed, and children at risk.
The 20/20 piece focused on the book’s claim that Walt Disney World neglected to perform proper security checks that would have prevented the hiring of sex offenders, as well as allegations that the park had a serious “peeping Tom” problem.
And as you’d expect from Schweizer’s work, the book included copies of police reports from alleged pedophiles who were working at the park.
David Westin was the president of ABC News and when he got wind of the Disney exposé, he quickly killed the project.
Many speculated he axed the piece because Walt Disney Co. owned ABC. However, ABC spokeswoman Eileen Murphy denied those claims, and said the story just “didn’t work,” and it had nothing to do with Disney.
Nobody believed that excuse.
Network staffers claim when Westin read the bombshell script for the 20/20 segment he blew up and asked everyone involved with the project if they were “crazy.” He couldn’t believe they’d think of airing a hit piece like that about their parent company, Disney.
Author Peter Schweizer, desperate to save the story, went back and watered down the script and resubmitted it, but Westin still refused to air the segment.
In its place, 20/20 ran a story about dogs on Prozac.
The interesting thing is that ABC hadn’t shied away from running pieces on Disney in the past. Back in March 1998, they ran a so-called “hit piece” on Disney (among other US companies) who were hiring workers from a Pacific island and paying them very low wages.
So, low wages for Pacific islanders were okay to talk about, just don’t mention alleged pedophiles and peeping Toms who were potentially endangering American children.
Got it…
Later, Schweizer tried shopping the script to “60 Minutes” but they passed on it as well.
That’s not surprising, since Disney has a reputation for closely guarding its dark side. It’s difficult to find gripping mainstream content exposing Disney’s alleged child predator problem or abuse allegations from former child actors.
I stumbled upon a 2014 piece from CNN that was actually quite good. They embarked on a 6-month undercover operation exposing child sex predators working at theme parks like Disney, Universal Studios, and Sea World, in Florida.
CNN’s report found that from 2006 to 2014, at least 35 Disney workers were arrested for sex crimes against children, or for possession of child pornography. There were three or four from Universal and Sea World arrested as well — 32 men were convicted.
Here’s the CNN piece if you want to watch it.
Sadly, stories like this are nothing new.
Sixteen years earlier Peter Schweizer and Brian Ross tried telling that same story on 20/20, by calling out Disney’s unsafe hiring practices that allowed child predators to get their foot in the park door, but they got steamrolled.
And here we are in 2022 and it appears that Disney is still hiring child predators.
Year after year, Disney employees are arrested in sex sting operations set up by local authorities and for possessing child pornography. And it’s not just random maintenance workers with no interaction with kids who are being arrested. Many of these alleged child predators are security guards, hotel staff, performers, and other workers who come in close contact with children every day.
In September 2021 a family sued Disney Cruise Line because they say their 3-year-old was groped and sexually molested during her stay at the Oceaneer Club Daycare.
In August 2021 they arrested several Disney employees in a “child sex sting” operated by the Polk County Sheriff. One man arrested was a lifeguard at Disney Animal Kingdom Lodge.
And just days after the Disney Regime came out against Florida’s anti-grooming law, police arrested four of their employees in a child trafficking sting.
But it’s not just the parks.
In June 2021, police charged former Disney Star Kyle Massey with sending pornography to a 13-year-old.
And just look at the laundry list of former Disney stars who’ve become dregs of humanity at worst and disheveled disasters at best — Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and Demi Lovato, just to name a few.
So, what’s going on here? There is every appearance of a pattern of documented abuse and predatory behavior that has gone on for decades at Disney’s theme parks, cruise ships, and within their entertainment empire as well.
If this was happening at Walmart, people would be out in the streets with pitchforks and torches demanding justice. But because it’s “beloved” Disney, many are hesitant to shatter the “magical” illusion. It’s like finding out Santa Claus is a serial killer.
Sure, it sucks, but we can’t keep burying our heads in the sand.
Let’s be real, this isn’t Walt’s “Disney” anymore, and it hasn’t been for a long time. Walt was a patriot and a family man who fought tooth and nail against communism. I imagine him spinning in his grave over this “progressive” abomination his company has morphed into.
And the reason the alleged abuse has gone on for decades is that Disney’s secrets are well kept. And whatever stories do leak out are piecemeal and scattered to the wind. A local news story here, a random blog post there, and so forth.
All we’ve got are whispers and grumblings when what we need are bullhorns and loudspeakers blasting the truth about what’s really happening inside the “happiest place on earth.”
And to be fair, maybe this is one of those rare cases where there is a ton of smoke and no fire. But why should we take anyone’s word for it?
The answer is simple — there needs to be a comprehensive investigation into all things “Disney.” And this is a perfect opportunity for GOP lawmakers to step up and fight on behalf of American families and wholesome traditional values by exposing the dark truth about the Disney Regime.
If Republicans take back the House and/or Senate, Governor DeSantis should call on lawmakers to hold public investigations into Disney’s hiring practices and find out why so many pedophiles, child predators, and peeping Toms have found their way inside Disney’s parks, hotels, and cruise ships for decades.
Former Disney child stars should testify before Congress about the dark underbelly culture of the Mickey Mouse Club and beyond, and how it negatively impacted their lives.
Governor DeSantis should also call on brave whistleblowers to step forward for the sake of the children and reveal what’s really going on behind the scenes inside Mickey’s palace.
It appears that Disney has swept too much dirt under the castle rugs for far too many years. It’s time for the GOP to make sense of it all and put all the scattered pieces together in one place for everyone to see.
It’s time to investigate Disney.