Toowoomba religious figure before city court on child sex charges

The accused man has not as yet been required to enter any pleas to the charges but pleaded guilty to a charge of breaching his bail.

The religious figure has not as yet been required to enter any pleas to the charges.

A Toowoomba religious figure charged with child sex matters has had his case adjourned in the city’s Magistrates Court.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared beside his solicitor Yazdhan Sameer, of Aden Lawyers, for the brief mention of the matters and to plead guilty to breaching a condition of bail.

The court heard part of the defendant’s bail conditions required him to report to police but he had arrived late for one of his appointments.

Mr Sameer told the court his client had been working late and slept through the time of reporting to police.

He had since taken steps to ensure it didn’t happen again, Mr Sameer said.

His client had no criminal history, he said.

The man has not as yet been required to enter any pleas to the child sex charges which include two counts of rape, three counts of indecent treatment of a child under 16, two counts of possessing child exploitation material and one count of making child exploitation material.

No details of the allegations have as yet been aired in open court.

Magistrate Howard Osborne fined the man $100 for breaching bail, the conviction not recorded, and adjourned the case for committal mention back in the same court on November 3.