Toowoomba ‘grooming’ case adjourned by court

A 25-YEAR-OLD man facing multiple charges of grooming under age children and making child exploitation material has had his matters mentioned before the Toowoomba Magistrates Court.

The accused man, who, due to the nature of some of the charges, cannot be named until the matters are put before the higher court, is facing up to a total 75 charges.

Those matters include 16 counts of using the internet to procure persons under the age of 16 to engage in, or submit to, sexual activity; 13 of using a carriage service to groom a person under 16; 10 of involving children in making exploitation material; seven of using the internet to transmit, make available, publish or distribute child pornography material; 21 of indecent treatment of a child (indecent film); five of using a carriage service to transmit indecent communication to a person under 16; two of indecent treatment of a child under 16 (expose); and accessing child pornography material.

The accused man was not in court for the brief mention of his matters to which he has not as yet been required to enter any pleas and remains at large on bail.

Though no specific details of the case were aired when the matters were mentioned before Toowoomba Magistrates Court, The Chronicle understands the man was arrested and charged earlier this year following a Taskforce Argos investigation.

The accused’s solicitor John Davis (MacDonald Law) sought an adjournment on behalf of his client.

Magistrate Catherine Pirie excused the man’s appearance in court and remanded him on bail with the case next to be mentioned back in the same court on August 23.