The happiest place on Earth may not be the happiest because child predators may be lurking around your kids.
An employee of Walt Disney World is one of twelve persons detained by Florida law enforcement authorities because of an undercover investigation targeting the internet solicitation of children.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Auburndale Police Department, and Winter Haven Police Department launched “Operation Child Predator II” on June 2. Throughout the two-week investigation, investigators pretended to be minors on social media platforms, mobile applications, and online dating sites to “examine people who prey on and travel to meet youngsters for criminal sexual behavior.”
Individuals arrested range in age from 20 to 67 years old, and a total of 12 persons face 49 felony counts. Four suspects reportedly repeatedly showed up at an undercover site in Polk County to meet with youngsters “to sexually abuse them.”
Zachary Hudson, 30, was detained and informed authorities that he works as a bus driver at Walt Disney World. Officials claim Hudson had sexual encounters with the undercover detective while working at Walt Disney World.
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When approached for comment, Disney did not immediately react to Fox News.
According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Hudson communicated online with an investigator who pretended to be a 15-year-old girl. According to police, when the undercover investigator masquerading as a 15-year-old girl questioned Hudson if her age was all right, he reportedly inquired, “my being older doesn’t worry you,” and replied, “age is just a number.”
When the conversation turned to text, Hudson reportedly explained what he planned to do sexually with the 15-year-old girl, saying he’d be “proud” to steal her virginity, according to the sheriff’s office. According to authorities, he also submitted a naked image of himself.
Hudson told the undercover officer, dressed as a 15-year-old girl, that he worked as a bus driver at Walt Disney World.
During a press conference, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd stated that Hudson informed the undercover investigator that “what we said might get us all in jail.”
Judd expressed a desire to wrap his hands around the girl’s “little tiny body” during chats with the undercover officer.
According to Judd, the Walt Disney World employee also told the girl several times that she had to keep their connection private because it was “our secret.”
“I might go to jail, you know. But I’d risk it to spend time with you. I’d risk going to prison.” According to Judd, Hudson reportedly said the undercover cop.
He was caught in Orlando and placed in the Orange County Jail, where he now faces one count of felony use of a two-way communication device and one count of transfer of material detrimental to a minor.
Judd said Hudson was messaging the undercover investigator acting like a 15-year-old girl at Walt Disney World.
“So if your Disney bus was late, he was busy snapping photographs of himself and talking trash to what he assumed was a small girl,” Judd explained.
Additionally, according to Judd, Hudson was wearing his Walt Disney World uniform when his mugshot was taken.
Another previous scandal regarding child predators from Disney reached the headlines. Two weeks ago, Stoney Westmoreland, a former Disney Channel actor, was sentenced to two years in federal prison after being captured on the internet attempting to seduce a 13-year-old child into sex.
