Man Faces Forty Child Assault Charges

Big Pond News
August 9, 2013

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A man has been charged with grooming and sexually assaulting two girls he met through a church in Sydney.

A man has been charged with grooming and sexually assaulting two teenage girls he met through a church in Sydney.

The 23-year-old man was arrested at his home in Westleigh, in Sydney's northwest, on Wednesday and charged with 40 sexually-based child assault offences.

It followed investigations by the Child Abuse Squad into the alleged grooming and assault of two girls, aged 13 and 15, between March and July this year.

The girls met the man through their church, police allege.

The man was charged with 24 counts of committing an act of indecency with a person under 16, 11 counts of sexual intercourse with a person between 14 and 16 years and one count of sexual intercourse with a person aged between 10 and 14.

He was also charged with procuring and grooming children for sexual activity.

The man appeared at Hornsby Local Court on Wednesday, where he was refused bail to reappear at the same court on August 20.