Two Mexicans are facing deportation after allegedly abused a 14-year-old boy on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. One person was revealed to be HIV positive.
Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem overwhelmed the arrest, calling the man “sixth” and vowing to take him out of the country.
Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Real, 37, and Jose Prudencio Diaz, 36, were arrested Friday on an independent sea on a Miami-bound ship after the boy reported assault. NBC 6 reported.
The man is said to have entered the sauna. There, teens who didn't know them were wandering around on Thursdays and began to be exposed to him.
Both men then abused the teenager, authorities said.
Authorities said Diaz was later revealed to be HIV positive.
Furious by the news, Noem announced a swift action to deport alleged sex offenders.
“One of them has HIV. Both have ice detainees. We will drive these diseases out of our country,” Noem writes in X.
ICE detainees mean that local police are being asked to hold the man, even if they were otherwise let go.
However, neither Leal nor Diaz immediately goes anywhere as both are denied bonds and stays behind the bar.
“They tried to target certain minors, but this could be done again,” the prosecutor said, demanding that they be taken into custody.
The man faces charges of indecency and lewd abuse of a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
Diaz was also charged with having sex without revealing her HIV infection.
Records in Mexico remain unknown, but there are no previous criminal charges in the United States either.
