A man has been charged with numerous offences including 'up-skirting' after he was allegedly found to be in possession of child abuse material in Charlestown this week.
About 4pm on Wednesday 10 April 2019, police attached to the Lake Macquarie Target Action Group noticed a 52-year-old man walking along the Pacific Highway, Charlestown.
Officers arrested the man in relation to an incident that occurred on Friday 5 April 2019 on an escalator at a shopping centre in Charlestown where he was allegedly filming up a young woman's skirt.
The man's mobile phone was seized and examined by officers who allegedly located an amount of child abuse material and child grooming offences.
A search warrant was executed at the man's New Lambton Heights home where officers allegedly located electronic equipment containing further child abuse material.
The man was charged at Belmont Police Station with film persons private parts without consent, possess child abuse material, use carriage service to solicit child abuse material and use carriage service to transmit/publish/promote child abuse.
The man appeared before Toronto Local Court today (Friday 12 April 2019), and was refused bail to appear before Belmont Local Court on Wednesday 24 April 2019.
