NSW man charged with grooming underage girls, accessing child abuse material
A New South Wales man has been charged after an investigation into alleged child grooming and the accessing of child abuse material.
A 26-year-old man was identified allegedly using a number of social media platforms to allegedly groom underage girls for sex and to access and share child abuse material.
Police searched a home at Waratah in the city of Newcastle, where they arrested the man at 11.30am on Thursday.
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A New South Wales man has been charged after an investigation into alleged child grooming and the accessing of child abuse material. NSW Police
The man was taken to Waratah Police Station where he was charged with a range of offences including using carriage service to groom under 16 years for sex, using a carriage service to send indecent material to a person and using a carriage service to solicit child abuse material.
He was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court on Friday.
The man was arrested as a part of Strike Force Trawler, which was set up as an ongoing investigation into the sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
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