Sydney Teacher Charged with Publishing Child Pornography

ABC News
September 30, 2014

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-30/sydney-teacher-charged-with-publishing-child-pornography/5779920

A Catholic primary school teacher has been charged with publishing child pornography on the internet after police searched his home in Sydney's west.

Police said they seized "a number of electronic devices" from the 58-year-old man's home in Auburn after being tipped off by US authorities.

The images were uploaded to a website that was being monitored by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in the US, police said.

The NCMEC contacted detectives from the NSW Police Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) in August.

"After making their own inquiries, NCMEC staff determined that the material had been uploaded from an internet protocol (IP) address in Australia, and subsequently referred the matter to Australian authorities," a NSW Police statement said.

"CEIU detectives in Sydney subsequently commenced an investigation to determine who was responsible for uploading the material."

Police said the man was a teacher at a Catholic school in south-west Sydney, but the school has not been identified.

The man was charged with two counts of using a carriage service for child pornography material and four counts of possession of child abuse material.

He has been granted conditional bail to appear at Burwood Local Court on October 21.