Child porn visitors held

FOUR travellers a week are being busted at Australian Airports for bringing objectionable material into the country on their mobile phones and computers, ranging from terrorist propaganda to child exploitation video and photos.

Travellers from countries including Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Sierra Leone, China and India are being caught with child exploitation material.

Saudi national Abdullah Yousef Al Ahmed was charged last week after Australian Border Force officials allegedly found multiple videos of child exploitation when they searched his two mobile phones and a laptop.

He arrived from Malaysia and was planning to stay on a tourist visa. The 20-year-old was charged with intentionally importing a prohibited good into Australia and was refused bail to appear in Parramatta Bail Court on Saturday. There he was granted bail to appear in September and must report to police daily, live at a Seven Hills address and he has had to surrender his passport.

The maximum penalty for importing or exporting child exploitation material is $525,000 and/or imprisonment for 10 years.

On Tuesday, a Malaysian national was also found in possession of child exploitation material after officers found two videos and 20 photos on his mobile phone at Melbourne Airport.