Jeremy Pike
Cruise Ship Sex Offenders
Cruise Ship Passenger Sex Offenders
Cruise Ship Crewmember Sex Offenders
July 13, 2005
A son of a child molester, Jeremy Pike, a cruise ship youth director and Grade 5 teacher at Glen Street Public School in south Oshawa, Ontario has been in custody since July 19, 2005. Police were called on July 13, 2005 by the Durham Children’s Aid Society after receiving a report of sexual assault allegations against Pike.
He worked aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Adventure Of The Seas in 2003 and 2004. He may have worked on other cruise ships before or after that time period as well. Police fouind pictures of Pike posing with children on his lap while they were aboard a cruise ship and say Pike's crimes go back to 1998.
With a job aboard a cruise ship as a youth director, he clearly had positioned himself to be in contact with children, and to gain their trust, as well as the trust of their parents while aboard a cruise ship.
Pike pleaded guilty to 10 charges relating to assaults on six boys, some of them as young as six years old when they were abused in incidents that ranged from sexual touching to sodomy. Pike is facing 14 years in prison for his crimes against children, a rather light sentence by United States standards.
There were also videos of Pike with some of the children. Police say the videos amounted to 13 hours of recordings. The prosecution says some of the boys appear to have slept through the assaults, and have little memory of the incidents. Although police have identified six victims, the identities of two young boys Mr. Pike filmed himself abusing haven't been conclusively determined.
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Police racked up 80 charges against him in the course of their investigation. At the time of his arrest, Durham Regional Police seized computer images from Jeremy Pike's home in Bowmanville as part of their investigation into sex attacks on two 5 year old boys dating back to 1998.
The known window of crimes is possibly 1998 to July 2005. However he may have been assaulting children since the early 90s, when he was in his early 20s.
