Horror as Sydney childcare worker charged after allegedly forcing child to create abusive content
The married father, who cannot be named due to a court order, was arrested at his home by Australian Federal Police on Thursday.
He was taken into custody and charged with seven counts of using a child to make abusive material, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Three of the offences were allegedly aggravated.
The man was also charged with possessing child abuse data through a phone and police have seized his electronic devices.
His identity and place of work were kept anonymous to protect his alleged victims from 'psychological harm', as well as those alleged victims who have yet to be identified.
The married man did not apply for bail and it was formally refused on Thursday. He is next due to appear in court in September.
The seven charges are part of a sprawling investigation by AFP into alleged online child abuse material.
'The man came to police attention after the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received a report regarding an online user who had allegedly uploaded child abuse material files to a cloud platform,' a statement said.
'There is no ongoing threat to the community.'
The arrest is the latest in a series of headlines involving alleged child sex offenders.
Joshua Dale Brown, 26, was arrested on May 12 after he was alleged to have sexually assaulted children between the ages of five months and two years old in Victoria.
He was charged with more than 70 offences, including the sexual penetration of a child and producing child abuse material.
Brown's alleged acts became known to federal police after his name appeared in a separate investigation involving 36-year-old Michael Simon Wilson.
Wilson was charged with 45 sex offences on July 2, including rape, bestiality and possession of child abuse material.
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