Central Coast man sentenced to a decade in jail for producing child abuse material

A CENTRAL Coast man has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for producing child abuse material and sharing it online. An investigation started in December 2020 following a report by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) about an online user uploading videos of young girls to Snapchat and a cloud storage and file hosting service.AFP investigators linked the man, 34, from Kanwal, Central Coast, to the illegal online activity.In March 2021, AFP Eastern Command Child Protection investigators with support from specialists in imagery and geomatics and digital forensics, executed search warrants at the man’s home, where officers seized an electronic device and charged him with child-abuse related offences.The man pleaded guilty at the Gosford Local Court on February 9, 2022, to 12 child abuse-related offences:They included three counts of producing child abuse material with the intention of committing an offence, five counts of using a carriage service to make available child abuse material, one count of using a carriage service to solicit child abuse material and two counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material.He also plead guilty to one count of failing to comply
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