{"id":37936,"date":"2025-08-01T17:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37936\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:12:10","slug":"melbourne-academic-charged-after-child-abuse-material-allegedly-shown-in-lecture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37936\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne academic charged after child abuse material allegedly shown in lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Melbourne academic has been arrested and charged after child abuse images flashed up on a screen during a lecture he was conducting at a CBD university earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they searched the 70-year-old man\u2019s Middle Park home a week after the incident and seized electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the sexual offence and child abuse investigation team also travelled to Sydney and worked with NSW Police to raid another property in the city\u2019s eastern suburbs, where more devices were seized.<\/p>\n<p>A Victoria Police spokesperson said the man had been charged with one count of possessing child abuse material as a Commonwealth offence and two counts of possessing child abuse material after the material was displayed during a university lecture in the CBD on February 5.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear at Melbourne Magistrates\u2019 Court on August 7.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are not searching for anyone else in relation to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n<p>Start the day with a summary of the day\u2019s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p57ogt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Melbourne academic has been arrested and charged after child abuse images flashed up on a screen during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-37936","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\/37936","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=37936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}