Khalil John Nohra: Bass Hill man pleads guilty to child prostitution, grooming on Snapchat

An empty bottle of Midori and a Maccas Sprite pointed cops to a worker at a prestigious school who had groomed girls as young as 13, paying them in exchange for sex. Graphic content warning.

Nohra groomed six girls, using different aliases and accounts, on popular messaging service Snapchat. Picture: AFP

An empty bottle of Midori and a Maccas Sprite are what led detectives to the many aliases and extensive grooming of an IT worker at a prestigious girls school.

Two victims, of six in total, were only 13 years old.

Two were just 14.

One he told: “Just give me head (oral sex) and call it even LMAO (laughing my arse off)”.

Khalil John Nohra, 29, previously worked at the prestigious Parramatta Tara Anglican School for Girls and went by many online aliases: Daniel, Chris, Sammy and Karl.

Detectives arrested and charged him in May 2022 after forensics on an empty Midori bottle, gifted to a victim in exchange for oral sex, found his fingerprints and a McDonalds Sprite, which he also bought for a victim, was linked to his Visa bank card.

Six girls were ensnared in his at times elaborate grooming over messaging platform Snapchat, over a 12-month period from February 2021, and given vapes, cash and bank transfers in exchange for sexual acts, both oral and penetrative.

A Facebook photo of Khalil John Nohra. Picture: Facebook

None of the victims were students at Nohra’s place of work, Tara Anglican.

“I’ll give you $200 if you suck my dick,” Nohra messaged one victim.

Appearing on video link from custody, Nohra, bald, aged and donning custodial green – a far cry from the 19-year-old he told some girls he was – entered guilty pleas to a raft of procurement, child prostitution and sex with minors charges at Parramatta Local Court.

Arrested in May 2022, with multiple other victims coming forward to police thereafter, Nohra pleaded guilty to two counts of procuring children under 14 for unlawful sexual activity, three counts of sex with children between the ages of 14 and 16, three of procuring a child for sexual activity, one of causing a child into a prostitution act, and one of stalk and intimidation.

Detectives linked a Maccas Sprite Nohra bought for a victim to his bank card. Picture: Gaye Gerard

Nohra’s fingerprints were left on an empty bottle of liquor Midori.

A charge of sex without consent and procuring a child for unlawful sex, however, were withdrawn by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The incidents took place across western Sydney.

One girl was paid in vapes for sex where Nohra would meet her at a variety of empty Sydney parks at night, once – agreed facts revealed – to the “cries of foxes”.

Another he paid $470 over 10 transactions, labelled as “Subway”, “lunch” and “to pay your parents”, for oral and penetrative sex.

He paid one 13-year-old for a Snapchat video where the victim, dressed in underwear, “bended over” the camera.

A re-enactment of some of the text messages Nohra sent to victims, contained in the agreed police facts.

A re-enactment of Nohra’s texts to victims contained in the agreed police facts. Names have been taken out to protect identity.

He asked one 14-year-old victim to make out with her best friend, for $50, and would send $20 if she sent pictures of herself in her underwear.

Nohra told multiple victims he would propose when they turned 18, to live together in their “dream apartment”.

He only stopped messaging one when she threatened to show the messages to a family member police officer.

Another, after becoming “fearful” and calling it off, was told she owed him oral sex.

“Head once (more) like you agreed and then you can go on your merry way,” Nohra messaged the victim.

“Just give me head and call it even LMAO.

“How else will you pay me back? You haven’t got money and I don’t want to take your money LOL.”

Nohra had worked as an IT staff at prestigious Tara Anglican School for Girls, North Parramatta.

Nohra, who will be sentenced in the district court next month, was arrested when one victim, a 14-year-old, confided in a family member, who called the cops, which led detectives to the Midori and McDonalds drink discoveries.

Detectives began to realise then other reports of Snapchat grooming in the area seemed to link and – even under different names and over multiple accounts – the IP address matched, all connecting back to Nohra’s parent’s home. His parents are not accused of any involvement or any wrongdoing.

Nohra, who remains in custody, could be facing more than 15 years of jail time.

The maximum sentence for the most severe of his charges, procuring a child under 14 for unlawful sex, carries 15 years imprisonment, although Nohra will be handed an aggregate sentence for his 10 charges.

One of those charges, stalk and intimidate, proceeds to sentence but only as a back-up charge.

He will appear via video link from custody in July at Parramatta District Court for mention before proceeding to sentence.