WDW Photopass Photographer at the Studios Arrested for Child Porn

[Seahunt]

This was just on wftv (Orlando) local news

Disney Cast Member Arrested During National Child Pornography Sting

POSTED: 4:35 pm EDT June 17, 2008
UPDATED: 5:33 pm EDT June 17, 2008

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- You've seen the photographers who snap your picture as soon as you walk into a Disney park. Tuesday afternoon a man responsible for dispatching them throughout the park was arrested for child pornography.

Channel 9 received a tip about the arrest from Lake County detectives. Charles Hurrey's job dealing with photographers at Disney certainly gave him the tools and the access to children he would have needed to make his own child pornography, but investigators who looked at the videos believe he was downloading someone else's work.

Detectives say they discovered three different videos on Hurrey's home computer as a result of a long investigation. Hurrey worked as a photographer at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

It's Hurrey's job to make sure families vacationing at Disney's Hollywood Studios leave with plenty of pictures of their visit, but investigators say the pictures he keeps at home of children are not so innocent.

"They are very hardcore, sex with children or with young children and then the other one or two teenagers," said Det. Chris Loyko of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Loyko said he discovered the three videos on Hurrey's computer depicting children as young as 4-years-old involving graphic sexual acts. Loyko said he stumbled onto Hurrey while participating in an undercover sting called 'Operation Fair Play'. The operation is an ongoing, nationwide effort aimed at tacking child pornography.

Detectives are reluctant to reveal how it works, but in Lake County is the first suspect it has nabbed, but he happens to be one they said they are eager to put away.

Hurrey declined a request to interview him. A background check found that he's never been arrested before in Florida.

He was being held on $15,000 bond. Disney said he was being suspended from work until the outcome of the investigation.

 

[Poohbear123]

WOW....

 

[MidNite]

I'd like to bust his camera over his head a few hundred times.

 

[highland3]

Holy crap! It's sad how security screening can miss things.

 

[WonderfulDreamer2]

What a Richard Noggin.

 

[highland3]

What a Richard Noggin.

It took me a minute...

 

[pr surfer]

Holy crap! It's sad how security screening can miss things.

If it was performed at all. The CM may have been hired before WDW performed background checks on all CM's.

 

[JR6ooo4]

If it was performed at all. The CM may have been hired before WDW performed background checks on all CM's.

If he has never been caught doing anything (they said no arrests in florida) then how is a security check going to catch a person?

do you expect them to go to the applicants house and check his computer files?

MIkeeee

 

[pr surfer]

If he has never been caught doing anything (they said no arrests in florida) then how is a security check going to catch a person?

It isn't going to do a thing, and having just performed a quick name check in the state of Florida, it wouldn't have done a thing. He was clean except for 3 prior traffic tickets in Orange County.

do you expect them to go to the applicants house and check his computer files?

No, I don't. I never said I did either

 

[Aimeedyan]

What a Richard Noggin.

Ditto!

 

[MICKEY88]

Channel 9 received a tip about the arrest from Lake County detectives. Charles Hurrey's job dealing with photographers at Disney certainly gave him the tools and the access to children he would have needed to make his own child pornography, but investigators who looked at the videos believe he was downloading someone else's work.

this line is absolutely ridiculous, he dispatched the photographers, which means he most likely sat in an office somewhere,

how does that give him the tools to produce his own porn, ??, or even access to children... did he ask the photo pass people to bring children back to his house..this reporter is sensationalizing the story....

children at WDW were at no risk..

 

[tinkspark]

this line is absolutely ridiculous, he dispatched the photographers, which means he most likely sat in an office somewhere,

how does that give him the tools to produce his own porn, ??, or even access to children... did he ask the photo pass people to bring children back to his house..this reporter is sensationalizing the story....

children at WDW were at no risk..

Thank you for using your head. Because everything you said is totally true.

 

[ChrisFL]

this line is absolutely ridiculous, he dispatched the photographers, which means he most likely sat in an office somewhere,

how does that give him the tools to produce his own porn, ??, or even access to children... did he ask the photo pass people to bring children back to his house..this reporter is sensationalizing the story....

children at WDW were at no risk..

its typical media sensationalism...

 

[Matt Boom]

I've read a few versions of this story online and the one quoted above is the worst. Talk about sensationalism and trying to make people scared...

I'm in the media business and stories written like this give us all a bad name. It seems TV "journalists" are the worst at sensationalism.

 

[Cool-Beans]

this line is absolutely ridiculous, he dispatched the photographers, which means he most likely sat in an office somewhere,

how does that give him the tools to produce his own porn, ??, or even access to children... did he ask the photo pass people to bring children back to his house..this reporter is sensationalizing the story....

children at WDW were at no risk..

It said, "to make his own." He could easily have had access to the photos, even if he didn't take them. So he could have grabbed a little face off of one to make a bogus photo up. Or he could have removed the clothes and put in some other stuff.

While I'd be pissed off in a BIG way if someone used my kid's photo like that, it really doesn't harm the child in any way.

It does not surprise me that a pedophile would take a job where they got to be around kids. Doesn't surprise me that a guy into child porn would get a job where they have access to kids in photos. If I were into child porn, that's what I'd do.

I don't blame Disney.