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26 April, 2025

Man charged over child materials

POLICE have charged a Burpengary East man with allegedly possessing child exploitation material (CEM) and filming people in a public bathroom at the Morayfield Shopping Centre.


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Detectives from Argos and the Redcliffe Child Protection Investigation Unit executed a search warrant at a Burpengary East home on April 12, where they seized several digital devices and arrested a 30-year-old man.

The devices were forensically examined, and police allegedly located CEM that had been downloaded and multiple video recordings of people in a public bathroom.

Police will allege the man filmed people without their knowledge in public toilets in a shopping centre in Morayfield on multiple occasions from July to December 2024.

A 30-year-old Burpengary East man has been charged with three counts of possessing or controlling child abuse material obtained or accessed using a carriage service, and one count each of use carriage service to access child abuse material, and observations or recordings in breach of privacy.

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