A child care worker has been hit with more than 100 charges, including rape, indecent treatment and bestiality after police arrested four people over child exploitation offences.
Police allege a 39-year-old man, who was employed as a child care worker, was indecently assaulting children and recording the offences.He has been charged with 104 offences, including multiple counts of rape, indecent treatment, bestiality, making and distributing child exploitation material and supplying dangerous drugs.Police have appealed for anyone who may have been in contact with the man to come forward.
During Operation Sierra Phonology, police also charged a 33-year-old West End man in July with 15 offences, including distributing and possessing child exploitation material, using a carriage service to access child abuse material, producing and possessing dangerous drugs and possessing tainted property.
A 38-year-old woman appeared in Townsville Magistrates court on September 8 for offences of possessing child exploitation material, distributing child exploitation material and burglary.
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