{"id":427020,"date":"2026-01-21T05:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427020\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T05:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:11:09","slug":"man-charged-with-possession-of-child-abuse-material-after-being-intercepted-at-sydney-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427020\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with possession of child abuse material after being intercepted at Sydney Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Border Force officers stopped the man, aged 60, and searched his luggage after he arrived in Sydney on a flight from Cambodia yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>During an examination of the man&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/phones\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"mobile phone\">mobile phone<\/a>, border force officers allegedly found suspected child abuse material.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/9d39b898-a5d6-4479-ba20-40319266dfed.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>The 60-year-old man had his luggage examined upon his arrival in Sydney. (Alex Ellinghausen)<\/p>\n<p>When AFP officers arrived they also examined the suspect&#8217;s phone, where they allegedly discovered child abuse material and sexualised conversations with and about minors on the device.<\/p>\n<p>A laptop, tablet and USB were also found in the suspect&#8217;s luggage and seized for forensic analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations led to the execution of a search warrant at a Leichhardt home, where additional electronic devices underwent forensic examinations.<\/p>\n<p>The man was charged with possession or control of child abuse material obtained using a carriage service, intentionally importing prohibited tier two goods without approval, and two counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Border Force officers stopped the man, aged 60, and searched his luggage after he arrived in Sydney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-427020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427020","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=427020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}