Timothy David Webb, 32, was just another passenger on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Grandeur of the Seas for a Caribbean cruise. Families were aboard, many children would have run-of-the-ship privileges from their parents.
Among them returning to Norfolk, Virginia on May 21, 2009 was a registered sex offender, a child molester. With him he carried a vile secret, photographs of young boys, kiddy porn.
Now, those who have not done their research with due diligence have decided that this man is a victim, who had his right to privacy violated. The media is focusing on the fact that Webb's laptop was seized without just cause.
Timothy David Webb
Child Molester On Cruise Ship
Grandeur of the Seas - May 26, 2009
Nobody has asked the question publicly, except me. Where did Webb get those pictures of the young boys on this computer having sex? Were they cruise ship passengers? Did he get them of children who live in Bermuda while he was there? Did he bring them with him on the cruise, and if so, what purpose would that have been serving?
What the media has reported though, is that Webb is a "sex offender". He is not just a "sex offender". Webb was convicted on Mar 16, 2000 in Prince William Circuit Court for the crime of "CRIMES AGAINST NATURE (SODOMY)."
Since the media did not bother to go beyond what the sex offender's registry said, the story goes untold, until now. When you want the truth, as usual, you come to Cruise Bruise.
The name Timothy David Webb was familiar to me. I knew he was a military sex offender who molested a child because he is on the military sex offender's registry site I maintain.
Webb, a Marine Corps military police officer was sentenced to six months in jail in the civilian court on March 16, 2000 for having had sexual contact with a 14-year-old boy he met over the Internet.
The incident took place in August 1999 resulting in Webb's arrest after security guards at Potomac Mills Mall said they found him in a parked car engaging in sexual contact with a boy. That sexual contact was sodomy.
Prince William County Circuit Court Judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. sentenced Timothy David Webb who was 22-years-old at the time, to five years in jail and suspended all but six months of the sentence. There is the first judicial wrong in this story.
Webb, active military, was working at Quantico Marine Corps Base. The military also put him on trial. Webb, a Corporal (E-4),in the U.S. Marine Corps, plead guilty to a charge of "Sodomy On A Minor Child" and for having receipt and possession of child pornography by use of his personal computer.
The military judge sentenced Webb to a dishonorable discharge, confinement for 10 years, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and reduction to pay grade E-1.
During the sentencing phase of the appellant’s court-martial the Government called SA Lanning as a witness. He was accepted as an expert witness in the behavioral aspects of the sexual victimization of children.
He testified that he considered this case to be one dealing with a "preferential seduction molester," and that the appellant had interacted with the victim "through a seduction process.".
He placed the appellant in the category of "the most persistent and prolific of all child molesters." He noted that such molesters have recidivism rates twice as high as those who have a preference for females and that "men who victimize boys outside the family generally have the highest number of victims."
He further testified that the appellant is of the type that would be very difficult to change, and that he would consider him extremely dangerous because of the potential for "astronomical numbers of victims."
Webb appealed his convictions for possession of child pornography, and the sentence for those crimes were set aside. This is the second time in this case justice failed Americans . It explains how Webb was out of prison and able to take a cruise a year before he was originally scheduled to be released from prison.
Why were the child pornography charges set aside? During the inquiry into the providence of Webb’s guilty pleas to Specifications 2 and 3 of Charge II, the appellant admitted that he both possessed and received child pornography. The military judge, however, did not elicit from the appellant that the visual depictions he both received and possessed were depictions of actual children.
All this does not explain how a registered sex offender, a child molester, was able to get on a cruise ship to begin with. While congressional leaders debate Webb's right to privacy, they are NOT debating the citizens' right to have sex offenders prohibited from gaining entry to a cruise ship, a public place where children congregate and play only inches from where perverts sit and watch, as they can't at home.
One of Webb's employers is listed as a law firm in Woodbridge, Virginia that handles personal injury cases. The other is listed as a survey firm in the same town.
The fact is the police did have just cause. Webb, a known sex offender who molested a boy and was caught in the act inside his car, also had kiddy porn on his laptop at the time, a fact he did not contest, but plead guilty to at trial.
Once police realized he taken a cruise, was a registered child molester, with a history of kiddy porn on his laptop, it was quite logical to think that just maybe he had something other than photos of the sea on that laptop.
During an inspection of Webb's laptop, agents discovered child pornography photos and videos. A more extensive search revealed graphic pornography, some involving 8-year-old boys, according to court records.
Webb from Woodbridge, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC, had embarked in Norfolk, Virginia for the cruise on May 16, 2009. The ship went to Bermuda and returned on May 21. He was arrested June 8, 2009.
Nobody questioned him before he embarked. He was as average as John Q. Public and passengers never knew a child molester, a convicted child molester, carrying kiddy porn was among them.
