Disney employee Paul Viel was also arrested in a child pornography sting. Sheriff Grady Judd said the 40-year-old worked at Cosmic Ray’s restaurant at Disney World. PCSO said Viel specifically moved from Indiana to Florida to work at the amusement park.
Viel had 540 counts of child pornography that ranged from newborns to 8-year-olds. According to Judd, Viel’s wife asked, “Did I marry a monster?”
40-year-old Paul Viel was arrested and charged with 540 counts of *enhanced possession of child pornography (F2) after an on-scene preview of his devices, during which detectives found images and videos of children as young as newborns being sexually battered. He is being held in the Polk County Jail on a $2,700,000 bond ($5,000 per charge).
According to an inside source at Disney World Resorts Viel has been terminated.
*The felony child pornography charges are upgraded (enhanced) if the suspect possesses 10 or more images of child pornography and at least one image contains any of the following criteria:
• Image depicts a child younger than the age of 5
• Image depicts sadomasochistic abuse of a child
• Image depicts sexual battery of a child
• Image depicts sexual bestiality involving a child
• Any sexually explicit movie involving a child