An Australian former childcare employee has been charged with abusing 91 kids in what police described Tuesday as one of many nation’s “most horrific” youngster intercourse abuse instances.

He has been charged with 1,623 separate crimes, together with 136 counts of rape and 110 counts of sexual activity with a baby youthful than 10, officers added.

Investigators arrested the 45-year-old man after discovering graphic youngster pornography posted on the darkish internet, utilizing visible clues within the background to ultimately hint them to a childcare centre in Brisbane.

But it surely was solely once they began sifting by his telephone and pc that they realised the gravity of his “heinous” alleged offences, which have been depicted on greater than 4,000 seized photos and movies.

Police stated the crimes occurred at 10 totally different childcare centres between 2007 and 2022 and solely focused “prepubescent women”.

A few of his alleged victims have been as younger as one, police stated.

Whereas 87 of the 91 victims have been from Australia, police consider 4 different unidentified kids have been abused whereas the person labored abroad for a short spell between 2013 and 2014.

Police stated they have been working with worldwide crime companies to seek out these kids, with out revealing which nation they have been focusing on.

“There may be not a lot solace I may give mother and father and kids who’ve been recognized,” assistant federal police commissioner Justine Gough stated.

“It is a distressing time for households, carers and the group broadly.”

New South Wales assistant police commissioner Michael Fitzgerald stated it was one of the horrific instances he had ever seen.

“It is past the realms of anybody’s creativeness what this individual did to those kids,” he stated.

“I can solely say, you attempt to not be shocked after an extended time frame within the police, however it is a horrific case.”

Some 35 detectives and investigators throughout the states of Queensland and New South Wales have been known as in to work on a activity power devoted to sifting by the sheer quantity of kid abuse materials police had found.

Police stated the person had handed the stringent sequence of background checks wanted to work at childcare centres in Australia.

He’s scheduled to face court docket in Queensland on August 21.

As soon as these proceedings are completed, he shall be extradited to New South Wales to face additional costs.