A man has been charged after he allegedly had sexually explicit conversations with what he believed to be a 13-year-old girl.
Detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crime Squad’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit say they began engaging online with the man earlier this month.
Police will allege in court that the man engaged in sexually explicit conversations about acts he wished to perform on the child and sent sexually explicit material.
Strike Force Trawler detectives arrested a 50-year-old man at a home at Gunnedah about 8.30am yesterday.
A search warrant was subsequently executed, where detectives seized a mobile phone.
The man was taken to Gunnedah Police Station and charged with one count of use carriage service to groom person under 16 years for sex, three counts of use carriage service to solicit child abuse material, and four counts of use carriage service to transmit indecent communication to a person under 16 years.
He was refused bail and is due to appear at Tamworth Local Court today.
