Australian police seized an online child porn case and on Monday searched a Sydney Chinatown location where a 25-year-old young foreigner was accused of being an administrator of the children's porn website and selling child abuse materials online. Before the central District Court in Sydney today.
Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a statement today that the man came to Australia in November 2018. The AFP Child Protection Assessment Center (CPAC) opened an investigation after receiving child abuse information from the National Center for missing and exploited Child Protection (NCMEC) in the United States.
After preliminary investigation, CPAC targeted the 25-year-old man, and the case was subsequently followed up by (JACE), a joint anti-child exploitation unit in the new state of AFP, and a thorough investigation of the man's online activities was carried out.
AFP refers to the man as an administrator of a website dedicated to the exploitation of children. The site has been operating since at least 2017 and sells sexual abuse children's materials to users around the world for a profit.
Police believe the man used the illegal income to finance his lifestyle, including coming to Australia and travelling around Australia.
In the course of the investigation, police searched a location in Sydney's Chinatown Jubilee Market (Haymarket) on Monday, where they arrest the man and charged him with a number of charges, including the provision of child porn material through a transmission service. The maximum penalty for this charge is 25 years imprisonment; The maximum penalty for dealing with proceeds of crime of more than A $1000 is five years' imprisonment; the maximum penalty for holding child abuse data is 10 years' imprisonment.
AFP Detective Superintendent Dunbar (Jarryd Dunbar) said the case showed how the various departments worked together and that arrest had a person accused of abusing children for their own economic's benefit.
As part of the investigation, authorities also took action to shut down the server's overseas site. A survey of users of the site is still under way, not excluding future arrests.
