CANBERRA, ACT, May 26 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
A Queensland man has been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for indecent treatment of a child and accessing, transmitting and soliciting child abuse material.
He was ordered to serve a minimum non-parole period of seven years and six months. The man, 55, was sentenced last week in the Rockhampton Supreme Court after he previously pleaded guilty to 14 child abuse-related offences.
An investigation began in January, 2024, when the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) received a report from the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency about a person sharing child abuse material in a number of chats on an online platform and cla...