Adelaide children’s app creator Luke Tregloan charged with possessing child abuse material and illegally filming people having sex or undressing

An alleged Peeping Tom has faced court over charges he has spent the past three years filming Adelaide women through their windows as they had sex and undressed, and posted child-abuse material online.

South Australian Luke Tregloan – who designed and launched an app for kids – has been charged with possessing child exploitation material and filming people without their permission while they undressed and had sex. Picture: AAP

A children’s app creator has been arrested and charged with possessing child exploitation material and illegally filming people having sex.

Luke Spencer Tregloan, 45, of Highgate, appeared briefly in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday after being arrested at the weekend by state and federal police.

During the hearing, Magistrate Paul Bennett heard that prosecutors were not opposed to releasing Tregloan on home detention bail.

The case was adjourned until next week while a report is ordered on the suitability of home detention bail.

Tregloan is accused of filming women without their knowledge while they were in their homes.

He was arrested by officers from the Joint Anti-Child Exploitation Taskforce, which comprises state and federal officers dedicated to protecting children.

The arrest was sparked by a tip-off to the Australia Centre to Counter Child Exploitation reporting that someone had been uploading child exploitation material to an online platform.

Tregloan is accused of posting the material while posing as a woman to conceal his identity.

When investigators searched his home, police will allege they found child exploitation material on his mobile phone along with a “significant” number of files he is accused of filming himself.

Those videos were allegedly filmed from outside Adelaide homes and were made without the residents’ knowledge.

Court records show that he is accused of illegally filming people in various states of undress and involved in sexual activity between July 2017 all the way up to the time of his arrest.

He has been charged with possessing or controlling child abuse material, using a carriage service to access child abuse material and indecent filming.

The offences carry a maximum prison sentence of between two and 15 years.

Last year, Tregloan and a business partner launched a smartphone app for children featuring scenes filmed at iconic destinations such as Kangaroo Island, Hahndorf, Monarto Zoo and the River Torrens.

The app shows native Australian animal characters singing educational songs for kids.