CANBERRA, ACT, March 28 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
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An Illawarra man has been sentenced to four years and two months' imprisonment and will be eligible for release on 15 August, 2026, after trying to groom a teenage boy in the United Kingdom (UK) via social media.
The man, 62, was sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court today (28 March, 2025) after pleading guilty to six charges on 21 November, 2024.
AFP Child Protection Operations officers arrested the man at a property in Lake Heights, near Wollongong, in February, 2024.
The AFP told the court the man used social media to converse with who he believed was a 14-year-old male...