A retired Air Force master sergeant, who said he works as a security guard at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park, and an unemployed man have been arrested in Polk County on child pornography charges.

According to the Polk County Sheriff's Office, the arrests were made Tuesday after detectives executed search warrants at the Davenport home of Thomas Wheeler, 46, and the Clermont home of Edward Freiberger, 67.

Wheeler, the former sergeant, is accused of possessing numerous images of children ages 9 and 11 engaged in sexual activity on his computer. Detectives said he admitted to viewing child pornography for several years "out of curiosity" and said he enjoyed viewing the images because of the "innocence" of the children.

Wheeler shares his Davenport home with his wife and two teenage kids. His son says the family didn’t have a clue.

“I had no idea to be honest with you and it’s disappointing, it is, but he’s still my dad,” said his son Chris Wheeler.

Chris Wheeler said he was questioned but detectives let him go once his father admitted he’s watched child porn for years.

“I find it really hard to believe because he’s always seemed like a stand-up guy. He served in the military. He works for Disney.”

Thomas Wheeler is on unpaid administrative leave from his Disney park job until the investigation is complete.

Freiberger had a "large collection" of child pornography and was saving them on compact discs, detectives said.

It's a scary thought for Diana Bar who allows her children to play outside in direct view of Wheeler’s home.

“It made me think. It makes me almost not want to have my kids out here playing anymore,” said Bar. “I think it’s sick."

Deputies say they were tipped off about the child porn bust after receiving almost a dozen cyber tips for the center of missing and exploited children.

Detectives said the images recovered from Freiberger's home were of children as young as 6 months old being sexually battered. Also found at Freiberger's home, detectives said, was a notepad containing the email, age, clothing description and a request for Uncle Mike's Hard Lemonade for a child he was planning to meet at the Altamonte Springs Mall.

Freiberger denied meeting a child, but admitted to talking sexually to children in online chat rooms, detectives said.

"The graphic images discovered in this investigation were not just images of children without clothes," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. "These images are horrific displays of children being forced to expose their genitals, forced to perform sexual acts - images of children being raped."

Detectives said they also removed 15 high-powered rifles, shotguns and handguns from Freiberger's residence, but they did not say whether Freiberger possessed them illegally.

Wheeler was charged with seven counts of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. Freiberger, who told detectives he was retired from a nuclear power plant, was charged with 60 counts of child pornography.