{"id":118063,"date":"2025-09-04T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118063\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:14:06","slug":"queensland-police-officer-charged-with-possessing-child-exploitation-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/118063\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland police officer charged with possessing child exploitation material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Queensland police officer has been charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man is a 40-year-old sergeant from the North Coast Region, which encompasses the Sunshine Coast and Wide Bay, north of Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He has been charged with three counts of possessing child exploitation material and one count of distributing child exploitation material.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police allege the crimes were committed while the officer was off duty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man is due to appear in the Sandgate Magistrates Court next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Queensland Police Service said the sergeant has been suspended from his duties.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queensland police officer has been charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material.\u00a0 The man is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,48574,44,83570,83569,10471,11942,21331],"class_list":["post-118063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-child-exploitation-material","tag-news","tag-north-coast-region","tag-queensland-magistrates-court","tag-queensland-police-service","tag-sunshine-coast","tag-wide-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}