Queensland Police have charged five men with a range of child sex offences as part of an international investigation targeting online child exploitation.
As part of Operation Walwa, coordinated by the AFP-led Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE), detectives from the State Crime Command’s Child Abuse and Sexual Crime Group, Argos, and local Child Protection and Investigation Units executed five search warrants across Queensland.
The international operation, which included the United States Homeland Security Investigations, targeted a website where users paid to access child abuse material online.
Since the commencement of Operation Walwa in 2018, the Queensland Police Service has arrested and charged the five men with 30 child exploitation offences ranging from use carriage service to transmit indecent images to possess and make child exploitation material.
Those charged are expected to appear in court in the coming months.
Detective Superintendent Denzil Clark from the Child Abuse and Sexual Crimes Group said strong law
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