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Court Adjourns Sydney Childcare Abuse Case to November

AFP specialists are still sifting 550,000 unique images from a 1.4 million‑file cache to identify victims.

Overview

  • The Parramatta Local Court granted prosecutors more than two months to serve a large brief of evidence after a brief mention on Friday.
  • The non-publication order remains in place, preventing identification of the accused or his current and past workplaces.
  • The man faces seven counts of using a child under 14 to make child abuse material, including three aggravated counts, and one count of possessing child abuse data.
  • Investigators seized several devices during a search at the man's home, with police stressing the file count reflects workload for the victim identification team rather than the extent of alleged offending.
  • The accused was arrested in July, has worked at multiple childcare centres in Sydney over more than a decade, and officers are still methodically reviewing material to identify and notify potential victims.