Former Australian Childcare Employee Charged With Sexual Abuse of 91 Kids

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A former Australian childcare employee has been charged with 1,623 youngster abuse offences in opposition to 91 kids between 2007 and 2022, federal police mentioned on Tuesday.

The 45-year-old man has been in custody in Queensland state since August 2022 when police arrested and charged him initially for making youngster exploitation materials.

Police alleged extra self-produced youngster abuse materials was discovered on digital gadgets purportedly owned by the person, after additional investigations since his arrest final 12 months.

“This is likely one of the most horrific youngster abuse circumstances that I’ve seen in practically 40 years of policing,” New South Wales state police Assistant Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald advised a information convention.

“It is past the realms of anybody’s creativeness what this particular person did to those kids.”

Police mentioned the person recorded the offences on telephones and cameras whereas working in 10 childcare centres in Brisbane between 2007 to 2013, and 2018 to 2022, an abroad centre in 2013 and 2014 and one centre in Sydney between 2014 and 2017.

He has been charged with 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual activity with a toddler underneath 10. All the kids allegedly offended had been women, with some now aged over 18 years.

The case has been scheduled in courtroom on Aug. 21.

(Reporting by Renju Jose in Sydney; Modifying by Christopher Cushing)

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