Important Takeaways:
- Australian Police Charge Ex-Childcare Worker with Sex Abuse of 91 Children
- A former Australian childcare worker is facing 1,623 child abuse charges after allegedly sexually abusing 91 children, filming it, then sharing the content online.
- Police allege the man preyed on young girls over a 15-year period at a dozen centers in Australia as well as overseas all while distributing the content on the dark web.
- He was arrested in August 2022, but it has taken police a year to investigate and identify alleged victims.
- The accused man, 45, has been charged with 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual intercourse with a child under 10, ABC News reports.
- An investigation involving the Australian Federal Police (AFP) as well as Queensland and New South Wales state police led to the arrest of the man, with offences allegedly committed in Brisbane, Sydney and overseas between 2007 and 2022.
- Police said the abuse happened at 10 different childcare centers between 2007 and 2022 and exclusively targeted “prepubescent girls” — some as young as one year old.
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