Dozens of theme park employees caught in sex stings, child porn arrests

KFOR.COM ^ | 14 JULY 2014 | CNN

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

CLERMONT, Florida (CNN) — Just days after getting arrested in a child sex sting, Robert Kingsolver is a long way from his beloved job at Walt Disney World.

Inside his rented house in a suburban Orlando neighborhood filled with children, he sits in a folding chair in a nearly empty room, wires dangling in the corner where his computer used to be connected.

Now, he can’t be online or near children.

“My life is ruined,” he told CNN in an interview at his home. “My family’s life is ruined. My kids’ life is ruined. I’ve devastated my parents because of bad judgment.”

Kingsolver, 49, is one of at least 35 Disney employees arrested since 2006 and accused of sex crimes involving children, trying to meet a minor for sex, or for possession of child pornography, according to a six-month CNN investigation that examined police and court records, and interviewed law enforcement officials and some of the men who have been arrested.

[Secret Agent Man]

yup.

[Nifster]

“Kingsolver, a service manager who oversaw ride repairs at the Magic Kingdom, has pleaded not guilty to soliciting a child for sexual acts and traveling to meet a minor for unlawful sexual activity.

He said he thought he was going to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex at a house set up by detectives from the Lake County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office, according to police records. Instead, when he showed up at the house, he was met by detectives.

Kingsolver told CNN he was just trying to protect the girl, and planned to call authorities when he showed up at the house. He said his family is standing by him.”

Yeah right sure....that’s what everyone who solicits sex with a minor says...perv

[elcid1970]

Leaving Orlando one morning after a business trip I heard a local talk show warning listeners not to take their kids to Disney World that day because it was Gay Day. Said that kids should not have to see what goes on there. That was in 2003.

Never knew what the big deal was about the Magic Kingdom, anyway. Expensive even after you go through the gate is what I have heard.

[IYAS9YAS]

His life is ruined? To Hell with him. What about the victims of his lifestyle?

[DoughtyOne]

Here are some facts folks need to keep in mind with regard to this article.

Not one of these 35 people were arrested for committing a sex act on Disney property.

Disney world employes over 65,000 ‘cast members’.

The 35 people were arrested over an eight year period. That’s a little over 4 per year out of those 65,000 employees.

Knowing how employees roll in and out of jobs, over this eight years Disney probably employed over 100,000 if not hundreds of thousands of different people for those positions.

I think it’s remarkable that there weren’t far more problems than this, and I think it’s a credit to Disney for screening their people pretty good.

CNN is a scrounge organization. This is yellow journalism at it’s very worst.

I disagree with a number of Disney decisions, and I think they are fair game on some issues. This isn’t one of them, and CNN’s brash headline is despicable.