CANBERRA, ACT, May 22 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
Editor's note:Vision of the man's arrest isavailable via Hightail
A Queensland man has been sentenced to a maximum of five years' imprisonment for accessing, possessing and transmitting child abuse material online.
The man, 32, was sentenced in the Beenleigh District Court yesterday (21 May, 2025). He will serve a non-parole period of two-and-a-half years.
An investigation began in July, 2021, following a report from the United States' National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) of a man transmitting child abuse on a social media platform.
AFP executed a search warrant at the man's home in February, 2023, and charged him in March, 2023...