A Central Queensland man has been charged with child sex offences outside Australia.
The 46-year-old is accused of grooming a woman in the Philippines to procure her two daughters, aged 12 and 16, to engage in sexual activity with him.
Australian Border Force officers searched the man after he arrived at Brisbane Airport on a flight from Manila, Philippines, in December 2024.
It will be alleged that analysis of his phone revealed he had been grooming the woman via a phone messaging app to procure her two daughters, aged 12 and 16, to engage in sexual activity with him.
He also allegedly made numerous demands to solicit child abuse material from the woman, who refused to send him images.
The man was arrested at his Blackwater home in August and charged with grooming person to make it easier to engage in sexual activity with a child outside Australia, soliciting child abuse material via a carriage service and possession of child abuse material accessed via a carriage service.
These offences each carry a maximum penalty of 15 years’ imprisonment.
