Belconnen, ACT, Sept. 13 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release:
A 36-year-old Moncrieff man has been charged with possessing child abuse material following a search warrant yesterday.
After police received information about the transmission of child abuse material through an internet server, police began an investigation and on Friday 12 September a search warrant was conducted at the man's residence in Moncrieff.
During the search police allegedly located a mobile phone containing a number of images of child abuse material.
The man, who is a registered child sex offender, was subsequently arrested and will face the ACT Magistrates Court today (Saturday 13 September) charged with possessing child abuse material.
Anyone with information regarding the accessing or creation of child abuse material is urged to contact Crime Stoppers via the crime stoppers act website. Information can be provided anonymously.
Note to media: use of term 'child abuse material', not 'child pornography'
Use of the phrase "child pornography" benefits child sex abusers because it:
Indicates legitimacy and compliance on the part of the victim and therefore legality on the part of the abuser; and conjures images of children posing in 'provocative' positions, rather than suffering horrific abuse.
Each photograph captures an actual situation where a child has been abused. This is not 'pornography".
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