A Sydney childcare worker accused of using children to make abuse material has been charged with 129 new offences.<\/p>\n
The man, who has been in custody since his arrest in July 2025, cannot be identified because of a court non-publication order.<\/p>\n
Sexual assault support services:NSW Health Sexual Assault Services<\/a> \u00a0NSW Sexual Violence Helpline on\u00a01800 424 017NSW Victims Services<\/a> on\u00a01800 633 063Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service on\u00a01800 211 028Bravehearts (support for child sexual abuse survivors)<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a01800 272 831Child Protection Helpline on\u00a0132 111MARS Australia (for men affected by rape and sexual abuse)<\/a>\u00a0on (07) 3857 1222National Survivors Foundation<\/a>\u00a0on 1300 124 433Full Stop Australia<\/a> on 1800 385 578.<\/p>\n The Australian Federal Police (AFP) initially charged the man with seven counts of using a child under the age of 14 years to make child abuse material.<\/p>\n In a brief court hearing at Parramatta Local Court on Friday, the AFP laid the additional charges including 68 counts of production of child abuse material, 29 counts of filming of a person engaged in a private act without consent and 11 counts of aggravated use of a child under 14 years to produce child abuse material.<\/p>\n The maximum penalty for some of the new charges is 20 years’ imprisonment.<\/p>\n He now faces a total of 137 charges.<\/p>\n AFP sorting through 550,000 files<\/p>\n In June 2025, the AFP launched Operation Moonbi after the US-based National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that child abuse material had been uploaded online.<\/p>\n Investigators subsequently seized the man’s devices and began sorting through about 550,000 unique files from electronic devices.<\/p>\n AFP Detective Superintendent Luke Needham said investigators were continuing to review the material to try and identify the victims.<\/p>\n “We know matters like this are a parent’s worst nightmare, and we have investigators and digital forensic experts working around the clock to methodically review 2.4 million electronic files,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n “Our priority is to analyse all available evidence and engage impacted families as soon as possible.<\/p>\n “It is important we compile a complete account of the offending, so the appropriate support is provided for the specific individual circumstances of each impacted family.”<\/p>\n The court non-publication order also prevents the publication of any information that may identify the accused’s previous workplaces.<\/p>\n Police believe the alleged offending occurred between 2009 and 2025.<\/p>\n “The victim identification process in alleged child abuse matters is a painstaking and detailed process that can take months to carry out, but it is crucial we identify all the victims and capture the evidence in a way that will stand up to the rigours of a criminal trial,” Superintendent Needham said.<\/p>\n “The review of seized imagery is in its final stages, and impacted families are expected to be notified in the coming weeks.”<\/p>\n The case has been adjourned until July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sydney childcare worker accused of using children to make abuse material has been charged with 129 new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29623,64,63,29622,2025,34101,10947,502,44,297323,670,182874,297322,13298],"class_list":{"0":"post-612160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-federal-police","12":"tag-charges","13":"tag-child-abuse-material","14":"tag-childcare","15":"tag-children","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-operation-moonbi","18":"tag-sydney","19":"tag-sydney-news","20":"tag-using-children-to-make-abuse-material","21":"tag-worker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612160","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=612160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}