{"id":633755,"date":"2026-04-27T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:14:11","slug":"magistrates-son-to-face-trial-over-child-abuse-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/633755\/","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate&#8217;s son to face trial over child abuse charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper Mitchell Bamberry faced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/brisbane\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Brisbane\">Brisbane<\/a> Magistrates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/courts\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Court\">Court<\/a> today for a committal hearing on 129 charges that were laid in March and May 2025 when he was 22 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The Helensvale man is the son of Queensland magistrate Mark Bamberry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/cba69963-61da-48a3-953f-1d89392e682c.jpeg\"   alt=\"Brisbane Magistrates Court\"\/>Cooper Mitchell Bamberry faced Brisbane Magistrates Court today. (Jocelyn Garcia)<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer Adam Guest consented for the matter to go to trial after cross-examining one witness.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offences included one count of rape, two charges of intercourse with a child, 53 counts of indecent treatment of a child and 45 counts of using the internet to procure a child.<\/p>\n<p>Bamberry is also accused of possessing and distributing child exploitation material, and involving a child in the making of exploitation material.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Magistrate Stephen Courtney asked Bamberry, who stood in the dock wearing a black suit and red tie, if he had anything to say in response to the charges or enter any plea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No thank you, Your Honour,&#8221; Bamberry said.<\/p>\n<p>Police prosecutor Qi Wang had earlier handed numerous police and witness statements to Courtney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your lawyer has consented for you to be committed to trial without me considering the contents of all of those written statements,&#8221; Courtney told Bamberry.<\/p>\n<p>The court had been closed to the public for 25 minutes to hear from a single witness.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was granted special witness status by Courtney and gave evidence via videolink from another room.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney said the witness was not a child affected by alleged offending.<\/p>\n<p>The matter will move to Queensland&#8217;s District Court for a trial on a date yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Bamberry was not on bail and was remanded to stay in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is in need of support contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue. In the event of an emergency dial Triple Zero (000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooper Mitchell Bamberry faced Brisbane Magistrates Court today for a committal hearing on 129 charges that were laid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-633755","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\/633755","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=633755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}