WA man to face court over online conversations with a child
A Cooloongup man is due to face court on Friday after allegedly having sexual conversations online with someone he believed was a 12-year-old girl.
Authorities began investigating the man after receiving a report in July of a user on a messaging platform allegedly engaging in sexualised conversations with the person they believed was a child.
Australian Federal Police executed a search warrant on the man’s home in early October and arrested the 40-year-old.
He was charged with one count of attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child using a carriage service, and faces as much as 20 years in jail of convicted.
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Making headlines today is news from Perth’s east where, fresh from a battle against a $600 million data centre, Hazelmere residents are girding for a second fight as another tech giant sets its sights on their neighborhood.
Five months after GreenSquareDC was forced to withdraw its application for a $600 million data centre near the banks of the Helena River due to public outcry, a Canberra-based developer hopes to have more luck.
Canberra Data Centres (CDC) is looking to build a $337 million four-storey centre at 178 and 196 Bushmead Road around two kilometres from the proposed GreenSquareDC site.
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