Hotel quarantine raid for child abuse material; Border Force seize childlike sex dolls

A string of people have been arrested after childlike sex dolls, videos and photos of child abuse have been uncovered by Border Force investigators.

A Sydney man in mandatory hotel quarantine has been raided by a team of investigators and police and charged with possessing child abuse material that he allegedly smuggled in from the US.

He is one of more than a dozen alleged perverts busted attempting to bring horrific child abuse photos and videos into Australia during the pandemic.

Fifteen travellers attempting to get into Australia have been deported and had their temporary visas cancelled by Australian Border Force officers who have detected more than 240 of incidents of abuse material.

Statistics show the ABF has referred 13 cases of child abuse material, including cases of importations of childlike sex dolls, to the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecution.

An ABF spokesman said “a reduction of travellers during Covid-19 does not equal a reduction of enforcement at our borders”.

It can be revealed that the Sydney man in hotel quarantine was returning from the United States when he was stopped at Sydney International airport and searched.

Australian Border Force investigators arrest a Sydney man on child abuse offences after raiding his hotel room where he was quarantining after returning from the US.

The man’s laptop was confiscated before he was escorted to a hotel in Sydney to begin his mandatory Covid-19 quarantine period. While he was in quarantine, a forensic examination of the laptop found more material.

ABF Investigators with NSW Police Force officers then executed a search warrant at the Sydney hotel where the man was staying, arrested the man and seized another electronic device. He has been charged and is in custody.

A select group of ABF officers were last year sworn in and given extra police powers — allowing them to execute search warrants as part of a new pilot program to enhance interoperability and to support joint activities with other agencies.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said she was focused on bringing perpetrators to justice.

Child like sex doll. Picture: Supplied

“Child abusers take advantage of silence. Talking about the important work this Government is doing to end child abuse helps to pull abusers out of the shadows and into jail cells,” she said.

Ms Andrews said the ABF were making it as hard as possible for people to create child abuse material, possess it, or travel across an international border with it.

“As the results show, this work has not stopped during the pandemic,” she said.

A Japanese tourist caught by ABF officers in possession of more than 1000 videos containing child abuse material was sentenced to 16 months jail by a Perth Judge.

There were also a string of men around the country charged with importing childlike sex dolls.

A Victorian man was arrested in April and charged for importing a childlike sex doll. The 22-year-old Chinese national was arrested after the ABF executed a search warrant on a home in Toorak, Melbourne.

During the raid, officers seized a silicone lower torso of a childlike sex doll, items of infant clothing, and a flesh-like apparatus consistent with childlike appearance. Six mobile phones and several computers were also seized.

Chinese national arrested for importing childlike sex doll parts. Picture: Supplied.

And a Brisbane man has become the first person in Queensland to be convicted and sentenced for possessing child sex dolls, after new federal laws were introduced to combat offences.

Terry Dunnett, 45, was jailed in April for to two counts of possessing a child sex doll, one count of attempting to possess a child sex doll, and possessing child exploitation material.

Sydney man arrested over child exploitation material import. Picture Supplied.

Dunnett was sentenced to two years in jail, but was released on probation. He also placed him on a good behaviour bond for two years and ordered that he pay a $2,000 recognisance surety if he reoffends.

Another 58 year-old Sydney man has been charged for allegedly importing a childlike sex doll and possessing child exploitation material.

ABF officers examined an air cargo consignment in December, which arrived from China. The package was declared as containing a fashion model, but officers who opened the parcel found a childlike sex doll.

The man was charged and was refused bail.

Originally published as Hotel quarantine raid for child abuse material; Border Force seize childlike sex dolls