Detectives from the State Crime Command's Sex Crimes Squad have charged a man following an investigation into online grooming in the Hunter region.
Officers have spent the last month connecting online with a 47-year-old man in Port Stephens, posing as a woman and her daughter, aged under ten years.
The man reportedly engaged in highly-sexualised conversations, sent child abuse material, and arranged to meet the pair for sexual activity.
He was arrested at a home in Tanilba Bay yesterday at about 7:30am.
Police also seized several electronic storage devices and other items, which will undergo examination.
He was formally refused bail, and will appear before Newcastle Local Court next Wednesday.
