48-year-old man from Williamtown charged with child sex offences.

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• 48-year-old man charged and will face court today
• Laptops and phones seized
• Strike Force Trawler detectives engaged a man online who believed he was talking to a 13 year old girl.

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In December 2019 Strike Force Trawler detectives engaged in online conversations with a 48-year-old man from the Hunter, the man believed he was talking to a 13-year-old girl and engaged in sexual conversations telling them what sexual acts he would like to perform on a young girl.

After an extensive investigation into the man police swooped on the house in Williamtown yesterday arresting the man and executing a search warrant, phones and laptops were seized.

The man was taken to Raymond Terrace Police Station and charged with

• use carriage service to procure a person under 16 years for sex
• possess/control child abuse material using carriage service (x2).

The man was refused bail to appear at Raymond Terrace Local Court today