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Jorge Diaz-Vega: Ex-Disney World employee arrested after recording over 500 'upskirt' videos of women

Jorge Diaz-Vega had over 500 films on his phone that he claimed to have recorded as a 'guilty pleasure' for his personal sexual fulfillment

KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA: A former employee of Walt Disney World Hollywood Studios in Florida, Jorge Diaz-Vega, was arrested on Friday, March 31. Security personnel at the Star Wars-themed shop where Diaz-Vega worked allegedly witnessed him filming an upskirt video of an 18-year-old female customer.

An arrest affidavit claims that Diaz-Vega, 26, was arrested after confessing to filming hundreds of unsuspecting women at Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World for six years, according to Fox News. The affidavit claims that Diaz-Vega admitted to deputies that he had over 500 films on his phone that he claimed to have recorded as a "guilty pleasure" for his personal sexual fulfillment because "it is hard to find them online."

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On Friday, March 31, a security guard saw Diaz-Vega recording the 18-year-old woman while she and her fiancé were at the Star Wars-themed Dok-Ondar's Den of Antiquities looking for Disney World's renowned lightsabers.

The arrest complaint claims that the cast member reported Diaz-Vega and security authorities later told the young woman that someone had been discovered snapping a photo of her under her dress at the lightsaber store.

'Wonder if he was dressed as mickey'

Many people have reacted to the incident on Twitter, one person wrote, "I wonder why a pervert working at Disney would think it would be ok to be a pervert on the job." Another person wrote, "Doesn't he know he could have just put on a dress and got all the photos he wanted in the women's washrooms?"

A third person wrote, "Fake news unless we see the videos. Link?" Another individual asking for evidence wrote, "We need to see the evidence before deciding on this worker." This other person wrote, "Why is this funny? Wonder if he was dressed as mickey."

What were Jorge Diaz-Vega's charges?

The Florida citizen from Kissimmee was arrested and sent to the Orange County Jail on suspicion of one count of video voyeurism for secretly filming female visitors and a third-degree unlawful punishable by up to five years in prison. On Friday, March 31, Diaz-Vega was placed under arrest and freed on a $2,500 bond. He no longer works for Disney, a representative for the corporation revealed.

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