{"id":904984,"date":"2026-09-25T12:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904984\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:54:13","slug":"australian-federal-police-lay-115-additional-charges-on-alleged-childcare-abuser-hamish-tait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904984\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Federal Police lay 115 additional charges on alleged childcare abuser Hamish Tait"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has laid an additional 115 charges against a former Sydney childcare worker who allegedly abused more than 130 children.<\/p>\n

Hamish Tait is now facing 444 charges related to the alleged abuse of children over a 16-year period.<\/p>\n

Sexual assault support services:<\/p>\n

The additional charges laid on Friday include 105 counts of producing child abuse material, one count of carrying out a sexual act with a child under 10, five counts of filming a person engaged in a private act in circumstances of aggravation, and four counts of possessing child abuse material.<\/p>\n

The AFP said the charges related to the exploitation of children known to Mr Tait, and those who attended five early childhood education facilities in Sydney’s north-west in which he worked at or attended.<\/p>\n

The alleged offending is said to have occurred between 2009 and 2025.<\/p>\n

The additional charges relate to previously identified alleged victims, with no further people identified, the AFP noted.<\/p>\n

Mr Tait, 35, has been remanded in custody since he was arrested and first charged by the AFP in July.<\/p>\n

The matter remains before the courts and is next scheduled to be heard at Parramatta Local Court on October 8.<\/p>\n

\"Man<\/p>\n

Hamish Tait’s alleged offending is said to have occurred between 2009 and 2025. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

2.4 million electronic files reviewed<\/p>\n

The investigation, dubbed Operation Moonbi, has involved the review and analysis of 2.4 million electronic files.<\/p>\n

Police established a website under Operation Moonbi,<\/a> which included a list of the more than 55 childcare centres where Mr Tait worked at or attended between 2009 and 2025, predominantly in Sydney’s north-west.<\/p>\n

Alleged abuse has been identified at five centres.<\/p>\n

In July, the AFP released images of distinctive clothing in an attempt to identify alleged victims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The images were found on electronic devices seized as part of the investigation under Operation Moonbi.<\/p>\n

AFP Detective Acting Inspector Emmanuel Tsardoulias previously described victim identification work as “painstaking and detailed”.<\/p>\n

“Our victim ID team is tenacious, committed and will stop at nothing to identify children or victims of child exploitation,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has laid an additional 115 charges against a former Sydney childcare worker who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,29622,473128,27360,473129,44,297323],"class_list":["post-904984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-federal-police","tag-child-abuse-charges","tag-childcare-worker","tag-hamish-tait","tag-news","tag-operation-moonbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904984","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=904984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}