A Bourke school employee has been charged with alleged child and animal abuse offences under the NSW Police Sex Crimes Squad’s Strike Force Trawler.
Strike Force Trawler is an ongoing investigation by State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) into the sexual abuse and exploitation of children facilitated through the internet and related telecommunications devices.
Earlier this month, strike force detectives received a report regarding the detection of child abuse material linked to an account holder in the state’s north west.
At around 11am on Tuesday, detectives executed a commonwealth person warrant at a school, and search warrant at a home in the Bourke Shire region, where they say devices allegedly containing child abuse and animal abuse material were seized.
A 24-year-old man (pictured, right) was arrested and taken to Bourke Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of possess child abuse material, two counts of possess animal sexual abuse material and possess animal crush material.
He was refused bail to appear at Bail Division Local Court 4 today.
