Cops allegedly find 100K child abuse images on Illawarra man’s PC

A man is due in court today charged with producing and possessing thousands of images of child abuse, police allege.

A NSW man is due in court today charged with possessing and producing child abuse material, NSW Police allege.

Police allege while searching the man’s electronic devices they discovered more than 100,000 videos and images showing child abuse material.

In June 2020, detectives from Lake Illawarra Police began investigating the claims a man, 43, from the Illawarra area had been producing child abuse material.

Detectives then searched a home in Berkeley on June 23, 2020 as part of the investigation, and seized electronic devices for forensic investigation, NSW Police said in a statement.

The 43-year-old was arrested a short time later, and charged with offences relating to possessing child abuse material.

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“It’s alleged the man’s devices contained in excess of 100,000 videos and images of child abuse material, including images the man had taken within his home,” NSW Police said in a statement on Wednesday.

The man is due in Wollongong Local Court today, where he’ll be charged with additional offences.

Those offences include using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material, possess child abuse material (seven counts), produce child abuse material (16 counts), aggravated filming of a person in a private act (seven counts), indecent assault of a person under 16, and sexual intercourse with a person aged 10 to 14 years.

The man was refused bail and remains in custody.