Showing posts with label carriage service. Show all posts
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Thursday, 28 September 2017

Port Stephens Teacher Charged With Alleged Sexual Grooming

BY JESSICA ROUSE

An employee at a school in Port Stephens has been charged over alleged child grooming offences.

Investigations under Strike Force Minnamorra started in June to investigate a number of explicit messages and phone calls being exchanged between a female teacher and a male student in 2015.

Police will allege a number of phone calls and messages were sent between a 50-year-old employee and a 15-year-old male student.

Detectives also discovered a second student, aged 16, was involved in sending and receiving messages and phone calls with the same woman.

At about 3:30pm yesterday the 50-year-old was interviewed and later charged at Raymond Terrace Police Station with groom child for unlawful sexual activity, use carriage service to groom child under 16 years for sex and use carriage service to menace/harass/offend.

She was given conditional bail and will front Raymond Terrace Local Court on November 6.

The woman is no longer employed by the school.


Friday, 8 September 2017

Hunter man faces Parramatta court for using a carriage service

BY JESSICA ROUSE

The Hunter man arrested by detectives from the State Crime Command's Sex Crimes Squad in Sydney yesterday will face court today.

In July Strike Force Trawler detectives began engaging online with the 31-year-old in a bid to catch him out.

Police will allege in court the man believed he was speaking with a 14-year-old girl and engaged in sexually-explicit conversations the child and made arrangements to meet in person.

Yesterday (Thursday 7th September 2017) at about 10:20am strike force officers cornered the man on Church Street in Parramatta and arrested him.

Officers search the man and his backpack finding a large knife and also seizing a mobile phone.

He was taken to Paramatta Police Station and charged with using a carriage service to procure persons under 16 and also with carrying a knife upon apprehension.

The man was refused bail and faces Parramatta Local Court today.

(Images supplied by NSW Police Force)