CANBERRA, ACT, March 31 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
This is a joint release between the Australian Federal Police and Western Australia Police Force
A West Australian man who tried to hide his mobile phone from police has been sentenced to nine years and nine months' imprisonment for possessing child exploitation material.
The Safety Bay man, 54, was sentenced by the Perth District Court on Friday (28 March, 2025) and will serve a non-parole period of five years and 11 months.
The investigation began in June, 2023, when the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) received a report from the United States' National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about an onlin...