A former West Coast Eagles player has allegedly been caught with child abuse images on his mobile phone.<\/p>\n
News24 reports Laurie Bellotti, 50, was arrested in July following a burglary in Perth\u2019s north and was charged with home burglary with intent and breaching a restraining order.<\/p>\n
Police allegedly found images depicting child nudity on his mobile phone.<\/p>\n
Bellotti played 24 games in the AFL for West Coast throughout 1999 and 2000.<\/p>\n
He started his football career in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) playing for the Claremont Colts in 1998 and played a season at West Perth in 2001.<\/p>\n
He went onto play in the Northwest Pilbara Football League with the Karratha Falcons.<\/p>\n
The former AFL player has been remanded in custody at Hakea Prison after he pleaded guilty to offences related to the July burglary incident last week.<\/p>\n
Those matters will be heard again in the Perth Magistrates Court on January 19 next year.<\/p>\n
He has also pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing child exploitation material and will be sentenced in the Western Australia District Court on November 12.<\/p>\n
He is yet to enter a plea to a second charge of possessing child exploitation material, which will be heard in the Perth Magistrates Court on January 12 next year.<\/p>\n
Bellotti will also face the Mandurah Magistrates Court after he pleaded guilty to eight counts of breaching a restraining order, but not guilty to stalking and using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.<\/p>\n
Those matters are due to be heard on October 13 this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former West Coast Eagles player has allegedly been caught with child abuse images on his mobile phone.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[452503,167626,477939,477949,477958,28329,477938,477947,477948,415171,463605,477944,380412,477965,638,64,63,55,639,477964,34101,48574,477952,48347,477950,444858,477937,477940,477954,415280,430759,477934,477945,7451,99200,376790,477941,25356,477936,477962,210457,477946,187436,477961,477942,477935,477966,242157,477943,46,13971,38633,85,379302,477960,477963,477959,477956,477951,477953,477957,477955,364611,36052,6857,3414],"class_list":["post-909897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-s-north","tag-167626","tag-1999-and-2000-he","tag-2001-he","tag-24-games","tag-28329","tag-a-burglary","tag-a-carriage-service","tag-a-former-west-coast-eagles-player","tag-a-plea","tag-a-restraining-order","tag-a-restraining-order-police","tag-a-season","tag-a-second-charge","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-child-abuse-images","tag-child-abuse-material","tag-child-exploitation-material","tag-child-nudity","tag-custody","tag-eight-counts","tag-ex-afl-star","tag-former-west-coast-eagles-player-laurie-bellotti","tag-hakea-prison","tag-harass-or-cause-offence-those-matters","tag-his-football-career","tag-his-mobile-phone","tag-his-mobile-phone-bellotti","tag-home-burglary","tag-images","tag-intent","tag-january-12","tag-january-19","tag-july","tag-last-week-those-matters","tag-laurie-bellotti","tag-menace","tag-news24-reports","tag-newswire-news","tag-next-year-bellotti","tag-next-year-he","tag-november-12-he","tag-october-13","tag-offences","tag-one-charge","tag-perth","tag-phone","tag-play","tag-sports","tag-the-afl","tag-the-claremont-colts","tag-the-july-burglary-incident","tag-the-karratha-falcons-the-former-afl-player","tag-the-mandurah-magistrates-court","tag-the-northwest-pilbara-football-league","tag-the-perth-magistrates-court","tag-the-west-australian-football-league","tag-the-western-australia-district-court","tag-this-year","tag-wafl","tag-west-coast","tag-west-perth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909897","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=909897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}