Australian authorities cost 45-year-old man with 1,623 separate offences in opposition to youngsters.
A former childcare employee in Australia has been charged with sexually abusing 91 youngsters in what has been described as one of many worst youngster intercourse abuse instances within the nation’s historical past.
The 45-year-old man has been accused of 1,623 separate offences, together with 136 counts of rape, 110 counts of sexual activity with a baby beneath 10 and 613 counts of manufacturing youngster exploitation materials, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) stated on Tuesday.
The alleged crimes had been carried out at 12 completely different childcare centres in Sydney, Brisbane and abroad between 2007 and 2022, police stated.
The person, who police stated handed background checks required for his job, alleged to have recorded himself abusing his victims, all of whom had been pre-pubescent ladies.
Police stated they consider that each one 87 Australian youngsters recorded within the youngster exploitation movies have been recognized and they’re working with worldwide companions to determine 4 youngsters abused abroad.
Investigators had been trying to find the person since discovering a group of kid exploitation pictures and movies circulating on the darkish internet in 2014.
The accused man, from the Gold Coast in Queensland, has been in custody since he was arrested and charged with a lot of youngster exploitation offences in August 2022.
The person, who has not been named, is scheduled to face Brisbane Magistrates Courtroom on August 21.
“Whereas I’m extraordinarily happy with regulation enforcement’s persistence and their unwavering dedication to determine this alleged offender, and cease additional abuse, that is chilling information,” AFP Northern Assistant Commissioner Justine Gough stated.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that the AFP and different regulation enforcement dedicate a lot time and assets to stop and take motion in opposition to people who commit heinous crimes in opposition to youngsters.”
New South Wales state police Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald described the case as “one of the horrific instances of alleged youngster abuse our detectives have seen”.
“Alongside our accomplice companies, we’re completely dedicated to prosecuting anybody who goes after our group’s most weak,” Fitzgerald stated.
