{"id":37840,"date":"2025-08-01T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37840\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:18:08","slug":"melbourne-academic-charged-after-child-abuse-material-allegedly-shown-in-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37840\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne academic charged after child abuse material allegedly shown in lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Child abuse detectives have charged a 70-year-old academic after inappropriate images were allegedly displayed by accident during a university lecture earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The material was shown during a lecture at an unnamed university in Melbourne&#8217;s CBD on February 5, detectives allege.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The matter was reported to police and an investigation launched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police said officers executed a warrant at a Middle Park address a week after the lecture, seizing multiple electronic items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Detectives travelled to Sydney to execute a warrant at an eastern suburbs property the following day, seizing further devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The academic has been charged with three counts of possessing child abuse material, one of which is a Commonwealth offence, but it&#8217;s not clear when he was charged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police say their investigation into the matter was lengthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The 70-year-old is due to face court next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Child abuse detectives have charged a 70-year-old academic after inappropriate images were allegedly displayed by accident during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,13876,34101,4109,34102,44,6620],"class_list":["post-37840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-child-abuse","tag-child-abuse-material","tag-child-sex-abuse","tag-lecturer","tag-news","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37840","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=37840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}