How picture of bedsheets from darkweb led police to Brisbane childcare centre and man’s arrest
On Tuesday the AFP and Queensland police announced the man, aged 45, had been charged with 1,623 child abuse offences against 91 girls, including 136 counts of rape and 11o counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10.“Given there were so many alleged images and videos of children recorded over 15 years on the alleged offender’s devices, the process of identification took time, skill and determination,” Gough said.
On 20 October last year, police raided the Gold Coast house of a man who worked at the Brisbane childcare centre from 2007 to 2013. Sources familiar with the investigation say the discovery stunned police. “They found a needle in a haystack and then a stack of needles,” the source said. The AFP said the man “recorded his offending on phones and cameras” while working at childcare centres in Brisbane from 2007 to 2013, in Sydney from 2014 to 2017, and in Brisbane from 2018 to 2022. He is also alleged to have made child abuse material while working overseas, understood to be in Italy, in 2013 and 2014.“The AFP is also highly-confident that all 87 Australian children who were recorded in the alleged child abuse material have been identified,” the AFP statement said.
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