A 74-year-old Australian man has been charged with possessing pictures of pornographic activity.
While releasing the August statistics of serious sexual offences, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions says the accused was earlier charged with the rape and sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl.
The DPP’s Office also confirms that a 40-year-old man was charged with the rape and sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl. The accused was a family friend.
There was one incident where a 37-year-old employee of a special school was charged with abduction with the intent to have carnal knowledge and defilement of a 15-year-old student of the same school.
A 58-year-old man was charged with the rape and sexual assault of a 24-year-old woman who was his employee at the time of the incident.
There was one incident where a 26-year-old and a 27-year-old man were charged with the rape of a 22-year-old Australian national.
There were 23 people charged with a total of 58 counts of separate incidents in August. There were 42 cases of rape, 3 cases of attempted rape, 1 case of abduction with intent to have carnal knowledge, 1 case of indecent assault, 2 cases of defilement and 9 cases of sexual assault.
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