A 43-year-old Katoomba man received a two year and 10 months conviction in the Katoomba District Court on Friday (18 February 2022) following an Australian Federal Police investigation into a Pinterest user engaging in sexually explicit chats with children online.
The AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) received a report from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in September 2020 about explicit chats involving a user based in Australia.
The Katoomba man was arrested on 11 January 2021 by members of the AFP Eastern Command – Child Protection Operations Team and charged with two counts of using a carriage service to transmit indecent communications with a person under 16 years, contrary to section 474.27A of the Criminal Code 1995 (Cth).
