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What’s with Disney Employees and Kiddie Porn, Sex Charges?

The arrest of Adrijk Duran [pictured] is only the latest chapter involving Disney employees with kiddie porn and other sex charges. I came up with this list in only five minutes. Imagine the other cases that have flourished through the years.

CLERMONT, Florida- — A cast member at the Walt Disney World Resort is facing child pornography charges.

Investigators said they arrested Adrijk Duran, 20, at his home Monday.

On his computer, investigators said they found several different pictures. Some included images of children as young as three or four engaging in sexual acts with other children and adults.

Deputies said Duran admitted to downloading the pictures because he was curious about them, and that he’s been getting the pictures for about a year.

Duran reportedly works as a picture cleaner for Crystal Magic on Main Street in Disney’s Magic Kingdom theme park.

> In September, 2007, Darren Lamar Roberts, age 44, a Disney employee was arrested and charged with 18 counts of child pornography possession after police were notified that a notebook computer he owned, and left unattended in the laundry room of his apartment complex was found to have photographs described as child porn. Roberts worked at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Kissimmee police said a resident of the Caribbean Isle Apartments found a laptop computer in the laundry room and turned it into office staff.

In order to identify the owner of the computer, the staff said they turned on the computer and found a file folder containing child pornography photos, a Kissimmee police report said.

The staff also identified the owner as resident Darren Lamar Roberts and called police, according to the report.

Kissimmee police found and interviewed Roberts, during which he identified the computer as his property. He was arrested and charged with 18 counts of child pornography, a third degree felony, that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison on each count.

During the interview, Roberts identified the computer as his property and he was arrested, the police report said.

Roberts was charged with 18 counts of possession child pornography. The charge is a third-degree felony and carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison on each count if convicted.

Roberts was being held in the Osceola County, Florida Jail.

> In August, 2007, a 21-year-old Disney-MGM Studios food services worker was arrested on child-pornography charges, the Orlando Sun-Sentinel reports.

The paper reported that Tony Guerra of Kissimmee, Fla., sent 63 still images and four videos of baby pornography to an undercover Australian agent through a chat site, officials said in a complaint filed in federal court.

Guerra first caught Australian officials’ attention when he entered chat sites looking for “hardcore videos involving babies,” the Sun-Sentinel reported.

> Also in 2007, another employee of Walt Disney World who dealt with children daily in his role as Goofy and Beast from Beauty and the Beast was charged with 51 counts of child pornography.

Police arrested Matthew Wendland, 20, after his roommates told them about kiddie porn images which he had in his room. About a half dozen pictures of children under 18 engaged in sex acts or sexual poses were found on Wendland’s computer during a consensual search and another 45 sexually explicit images on a CD.

Wendland was suspended from his job without pay and is free on $8,500 bond following his arraignment. He had worked for Disney since the year before.

> Then in September 2004, a man who was cleared the previous month on claims he molested a teenager while playing Tigger at the Magic Kingdom was suspended again. This time he was playing Goofy and was accused of shoving two other workers at Walt Disney World.

His lawyer said the man was just “goofing around because he was Goofy.”

Two photographers at Disney’s Animal Kingdom say Michael Chartrand came up to them in his Goofy costume and shoved each in the chest, Orange County Sheriff’s Capt. Bernie Presha said.

The photographers, a male and female whose names were not released, told officers that they at first thought the Goofy character was a friend who was joking around, but said they thought it unlike their friend to have shoved them.

Later, when the character took off his costume head backstage, they saw that it was not their friend, Presha said. The photographers, who work for Kodak, told their bosses, who contacted Disney who called the sheriff’s office.

Jeffrey Kaufman, Chartrand’s attorney in the Tigger case, said the new claims were bogus.

“Goofy is always playful,” said Kaufman, who himself portrays characters at Disney part time and said he has played Goofy “hundreds of times.”

“Of course he was goofing around because he was Goofy!” Kaufman said.

Earlier in the year, Disney suspended Chartrand after a 13-year-old accused him of fondling her while he was dressed as Tigger. A jury acquitted Chartrand of those charges, and Disney let him return to work Aug. 6.

Kaufman said Disney sees Chartrand as a liability and is using this false claim against him.

He also said the two Kodak employees shoved Chartrand back, as part of routine horseplay among cast members and greeters meant to entertain patrons.

“That’s the joke about this,” Kaufman said. “You’re supposed to fool around, be animated. I knew for Michael it would be tough for him to go back. I told him he would be a walking bull’s-eye.”

Disney spokeswoman Jacquee Polak said Chartrand was suspended Aug. 30 and would remain so indefinitely. Kaufman said the suspension was unpaid.

Chartrand, 36, a native of England, had been living at his sister’s home in nearby Kissimmee but was not there Wednesday. Fran Chartrand referred all inquiries to Kaufman.

> In September, 1999 the FBI arrested a senior Infoseek executive for trying to solicit sex with a 13-year-old girl. Thirty four year-old Patrick Naughton, a top executive at Infoseek and the man in charge of Disney’s Web sites, has already been sacked from his job.

The Feds began investigating Naughton six months ago when one of its officers stumbled across the executive in a perv chat room. Despite the undercover agent repeatedly identifying himself as a “13-year-old girl” Naughton continued to engage the “girl” in lurid conversation. At one point Naughton asked the “girl” to strip naked for him before sending her to a site bearing a picture of male genitalia which he said were his own.

Naughton’s paedophile activities finally came to an end when he arranged to meet the girl. He was apprehended by law enforcement officers in Los Angeles who also discovered numerous kiddie porn pictures on Naughton’s laptop. The incident will come as acute embarrassment to Disney which only last week launched an initiative in Europe warning youngsters about steering clear of strangers on the Net. In a reworking of the popular fairy tale, the three little pigs warn kids of the dangers of the “big bad wolves” that stalk the Net. The initiative was part of a Disney education programme designed to help to stamp out kiddie porn on the Net.

Naughton had been named executive VP responsible for content and technology for Go Networks in January, a JV between Disney and Infoseek.

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