Naim Anderson pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Thursday to multiple child sex offences

A child sex predator has pleaded guilty to the bulk of his charges in court, after he was arrested by an undercover cop who had been posing as an underage girl he had been grooming.

Naim Anderson leaving the Adelaide Magistrates Court after he was arrested by AFP for trying to meet an underage girl for sex. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Naomi Jellicoe

A predator arrested in global sting involving the FBI believed he was meeting an underage girl he had groomed but was met with an undercover cop instead.

Naim Louis Anderson, 20, pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Thursday to 10 of his 15 child sex offences.

The charges he pleaded to included using a carriage service to access, control and transmit child abuse material, using a carriage service to procure child for sexual activity and three counts of using a carriage service for sexual activity with children.

Anderson, of Evanston Gardens, was arrested by Australian Federal Police at a train station in August last year while waiting to meet a teenager he believed he was grooming, which turned out to be an undercover police officer.

The Adelaide Magistrates Court heard Anderson had engaged in sexual acts with three victims, aged under 16 via social media platforms, including Snapchat and Kik.

The offences occurred between February 16, 2019 and August 27, 2020 at Kilburn and Evanston Gardens.

In a statement released after Anderson’s March hearing, South Australian Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team officers said Anderson befriended underage girls online, groomed them and blackmailed them into engaging in explicit chat and sexual activities via video calls.

“SA JACET are working with law enforcement partners including Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to identify the victims – who are residents of the United States and Canada – check on their welfare and provide them support,” they said.

Naim Louis Anderson was arrested by AFP officers after trying to meet a 14-year-old girl for sex. Picture: AFP

At the time of his arrest, Anderson was waiting to meet a 14-year-old girl he had groomed online when he was arrested by the South Australian Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team.

“He believed he had been speaking online to a 14-year-old girl since July, but it was actually a covert police officer posing as a child,” AFP Detective Acting Superintendent Gavin Stone had said.

He said Anderson had kept asking to meet the girl and had requested she wear a short skirt with no underwear.

After a search of Anderson’s house, police discovered child abuse material at Anderson’s home.

Anderson had been detected uploading child abuse material to the internet by the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and had began investigating him in May 2019 after a tip-off from the FBI.

James Caldicott, for Anderson, told the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Thursday that Anderson would be pleading not guilty to the remaining five charges, including using carriage service to solicit child abuse material and a fourth count of using a carriage service for sexual activity with children.

Magistrate Simon Smart committed Anderson to the District Court in July.