Sydney Childcare Worker Held For Sex Crimes Against 91 Girls

In a disturbing incidence of sexual harassment against children, an ex-childcare worker has been charged with 1623 sex crimes against 91 children in Australia and overseas in the period of 15 years. Investigators arrested the man through a graphic child pornographic video posted on the dark web in 2014, tracing the clues from the background of the video. 

The man is said to have been committing the crime for 15 years between 2007-2022. He has allegedly also committed crimes overseas in his brief period of working in 2013-2014. 

Australian Childcare Worker Charged With Sex Offences

In the news coming from Brisbane, Australia, the 45-year-old man has been charged with 1623 cases of child sexual abuse against 91 children carried out in a dozen early learning childcare centres in Brisbane, Sydney. 

As per the police officers, the man committed more than 1600 sexual offences including 136 rape counts and 110 counts of sexual abuse against a child under 10. He was also accused of allegedly committing sex offences in more than 10 different childcare centres between 2007-2022 exclusively targetting prepubescent girls, while one of his victims was as young as one. 

According to the reports, police became aware of the worker's crime after discovering a graphic child pornographic video posted on the web in 2014. After tracing the clues from the background of the video, police nabbed the sex offender in a childcare centre in Brisbane in August 2022. It was later when investigators began sifting through the man's hard drives, phone, and computer that they discovered the gravity of his offences as they seized 4000 images and videos of abuse against children.

Australian Federation Police (AFP) claimed that 87 of his 91 victims have been identified and their parents have been informed while four other unidentified children have been abused in the period when the man worked overseas. AFP claims to be working with international crime agencies to find the victims without revealing the name of the country they have been targeting. AFP has informed the parents of the victims while some of them are now over 18. 

A team of 35 detectives and investigators across Queensland came together in a task force to sift through the sheer volume of child abuse the man committed over the years.

While AFP Commissioner Justine Gough appreciated law enforcement for their persistent and unwavering dedication to identifying the alleged offender, he also expressed that there is not much solace he can give to victims and their families, stating how this is a distressing time for families, carers and the whole community. 

North South Wales assistant police commissioner Michael Fitzgerald called it one of the most horrific cases the country has seen calling it beyond the realms of a human's imagination of what this man had done to those children. He also informed that the man will face more than 100 charges in NSW. 

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