Overview
- Sex Crimes Squad detectives arrested a 62-year-old man at a Woollahra apartment on Tuesday and seized electronic devices.
- The man was charged with multiple offences including using a carriage service to transmit and access child abuse material, disseminating bestiality and animal crush material, and participating in a criminal group.
- He was refused bail and is due to appear in a Sydney local court on Wednesday.
- Police say he is the final NSW-based suspect linked to the alleged international network, bringing the number charged in the state to six as five others remain before the courts.
- Investigators have identified a further 145 alleged offenders for referral to agencies in Australia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, New Zealand, South America and Southeast Asia, and allege the network used an international website to share ritualistic or “satanic”-themed abuse material.