{"id":26701,"date":"2025-07-28T05:03:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26701\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:03:24","slug":"man-70-faces-15-years-prison-over-child-sex-abuse-pictures-allegedly-found-on-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26701\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 70, faces 15 years prison over child sex abuse pictures allegedly found on phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old man faces up to 15 years in prison after being charged with \ufeffpossessing child abuse material.<\/p>\n<p>The man from the \ufeffM\ufeffurray River town of Mannum\ufeff in South Australia allegedly had child abuse material on a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>It was seized on May 27 this year.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6ea3364b-dac5-4088-be25-9e82d3ceb7d4.jpeg\"   alt=\"A 70-year-old man faces up to 15 years in prison after being charged with &#xFEFF;possessing child abuse material.\"\/>A 70-year-old man faces up to 15 years in prison after being charged with \ufeffpossessing child abuse material. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>The South Australia Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team allegedly identified the man while investigating a report from the USA&#8217;s National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children about child abuse material being uploaded to a social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with possessing or controlling child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to appear in Murray Bridge Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n<p>AFP Detective Sergeant Jarrod Cook said: &#8220;We cannot send a clearer message to offenders \u2013 if you engage in these horrific activities, you will be found, charged and prosecuted.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old man faces up to 15 years in prison after being charged with \ufeffpossessing child abuse material.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-26701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701","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=26701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}