Police have requested a Justice of the Peace for a number of extra months to collect proof towards an ex-childcare employee charged with greater than 1600 youngster abuse offences spanning two Australian states, one abroad centre and 15 years.
Among the many sickening accusations levelled on the 45-year-old Gold Coast man, who can’t be named for authorized causes, are 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual activity with a toddler beneath the age of 10.
His 91 alleged prepubescent victims allegedly included 87 Australian ladies and 4 residing abroad.
Within the Brisbane Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom on Monday, the police prosecutor John Dick requested Deputy Chief Justice of the Peace Anthony Gett to adjourn the case till December or January, noting the “voluminous” dimension of the matter.
“The events want extra time to evaluate proof,” Mr Dick stated.
“We’re in the end searching for adjournment till the top of the 12 months”.
The prosecutor stated the temporary had largely been supplied however there have been some “small bits of proof regarding abroad proof which the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) is ready on and the AFP is ready on, however I don’t anticipate that will cease us from getting ready the matter”.
The alleged victims have been enrolled throughout 10 childcare centres in Brisbane between 2007 and 2013 – in addition to 2018 and 2022 – one abroad centre in 2013 and 2014, and one Sydney centre between 2014 and 2017.
The person has been locked up since his arrest in Brisbane’s south-west a 12 months in the past.
Justice of the Peace Gett stated he didn’t need to adjourn the case so long as police have been searching for, and was keen solely to adjourn it till November 6, when it should return to Brisbane Magistrates Courtroom.
In line with the Australian Federal Police (AFP), their Queensland counterparts first discovered alleged youngster abuse pictures and movies on the darkish internet in 2014 however couldn’t lock down any leads.
An alleged breakthrough got here in August 2022, when AFP investigators traced objects within the background of 1 alleged youngster abuse video to a Brisbane childcare centre the place the alleged perpetrator labored.
Following a search of the person’s dwelling and different addresses, police allegedly found virtually 4,000 youngster abuse pictures and movies which he’s accused of making.
The AFP initially charged the person with three youngster exploitation materials expenses.
From then, the investigation targeted largely on figuring out the alleged victims, with police assured all Australian ladies allegedly recorded have been recognized and their dad and mom notified.
Police say some alleged victims are actually adults.
After a 12 months of investigating, police charged the person with greater than 1,600 additional offences throughout Queensland and NSW.
The Queensland expenses, which he confronted in courtroom on Monday, allegedly relate to 63 Brisbane kids and 4 abroad children.
They embody 136 counts of rape, greater than 600 counts of indecent remedy of a kid beneath 16 and greater than 600 counts of constructing youngster exploitation materials.
The person can be charged with 83 counts of controlling, distributing or acquiring youngster pornography materials exterior Australia (and one depend of the identical cost inside Australia) and 6 counts of possessing youngster exploitation materials.
Individually, the person faces greater than 100 expenses in NSW allegedly regarding 23 Sydney kids beneath the age of 10. They embody 68 counts of sexual activity with a toddler, 42 counts of aggravated sexual activity with a toddler, 69 counts of aggravated indecent assault and one depend of manufacturing youngster abuse materials.
Whereas the person was charged by NSW Police in June this 12 months and by the AFP for the large variety of alleged Queensland offences a month later, he confronted the latter ones in courtroom first.
Police beforehand stated they’ll search his extradition to NSW as soon as he has confronted the judicial system in Queensland.
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