{"id":562288,"date":"2026-03-25T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562288\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:25:08","slug":"sydney-teenager-charged-with-terror-offences-after-allegedly-posting-threats-of-extremist-violence-australia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562288\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney teenager charged with terror offences after allegedly posting threats of extremist violence | Australia news"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with multiple terrorism offences after he allegedly posted threats of extremist violence online.<\/p>\n

Police initially arrested and charged the boy with weapons offences in December after the New South Wales<\/a> Joint Counter Terrorism Team received reports of someone making violent threats online, the Australian federal police said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

During a search of the boy\u2019s inner-west Sydney<\/a> home, police allegedly found a flick knife and a gel blaster. They charged him with possessing an unauthorised pistol and a prohibited weapon.<\/p>\n

Police also seized some electronic devices.<\/p>\n

While the devices were being investigated, the teenager faced court and was bailed on the weapons charges on 19 December.<\/p>\n

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A review of the devices then allegedly uncovered violent extremist material and documents containing information that could help carry out a terror attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be alleged the young person held a mixed ideology and outlined plans for acts of violence,\u201d the AFP said.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the boy was charged with five terrorism offences, including collecting and making documents likely to facilitate a terrorist act.<\/p>\n

The weapons charges carry a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail, while the most serious of the terrorism charges have a maximum sentence of 15 years behind bars.<\/p>\n

The teenager was expected to appear at a children\u2019s court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy has been charged with multiple terrorism offences after he allegedly posted threats of extremist violence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-562288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562288","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=562288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}