{"id":544082,"date":"2026-03-16T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:08:18","slug":"australian-author-craig-silvey-faces-further-child-exploitation-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544082\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian author Craig Silvey faces further child exploitation charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popular Australian author Craig Silvey has been charged with two further child exploitation offences, including allegedly producing child exploitation material.<\/p>\n

Mr Silvey, 43, was charged in January with distributing and possessing child exploitation material.<\/p>\n

The award-winning author has now been charged with another count of possession, as well as a new charge of producing child exploitation material.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, he appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court and his bail conditions were continued.<\/p>\n

\"Craig<\/p>\n

Mr Silvey remains on bail and is due to face court again in May. (ABC News: David Weber)<\/p>\n

The details of the new allegations were not revealed in court, but the dates attached to the charge of producing child exploitation material span from February 2022 to June 2022.<\/p>\n

The new charge of possessing child exploitation material is dated January 12, 2026 \u2014 the day detectives executed a search warrant at Mr Silvey’s Fremantle home.<\/p>\n

The court heard one of the four charges Mr Silvey is facing related to written material.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is scheduled to appear in court again in May.<\/p>\n

Woman charged<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, police said in a statement that during their investigation of Mr Silvey, they had charged a woman in her 60s with producing and distributing child exploitation material.<\/p>\n

Promotional material for the movie Runt taken down in York<\/a><\/p>\n

A WA town is grappling with how to deal with the news of allegations against author Craig Silvey.<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old woman from the suburb of Marangaroo was arrested last month.<\/p>\n

She is in custody and is scheduled to appear in Joondalup Magistrates Court next month.<\/p>\n

Police said she was charged as a result of forensic analysis on electronic devices they had seized.<\/p>\n

Mr Silvey is best known for his book Jasper Jones, an award-winning modern Australian classic that sold half a million copies worldwide and was adapted into a movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Popular Australian author Craig Silvey has been charged with two further child exploitation offences, including allegedly producing child…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[216925,269605,269604,269607,269606,43,44,14666,86,41,39,42,40,14665,45,269608],"class_list":["post-544082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-craig-silvey","tag-craig-silvey-child-exploitation-material","tag-craig-silvey-child-sex-charges","tag-craig-silvey-fremantle-court","tag-craig-silvey-in-court","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-perth-courts","tag-perth-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wa-courts","tag-wa-news","tag-what-is-craig-silvey-charged-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544082","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=544082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}