A man police allege is “one of biggest self-producers of online bestiality content” they’ve ever encountered has been charged with a string of serious offences.
Detectives yesterday raided the home of a 38-year-old man in Moorland, near Taree on the New South Wales Mid North Coast, where they made a gruesome find.
Police allege the man used the pseudonym ‘Beast Boy’ online, where he distributed bestiality material showing the sexual abuse of sheep, dogs, goats, chickens and even a dead kangaroo.
He had a “large online presence” and used encrypted messaging apps to distribute the material, much of which he had filmed himself, police allege.
RSPCA officers accompanied detectives yesterday and seized a dog that had appeared in the videos, it’s alleged.
Vision of the arrest shows detectives leading the man, wearing a black t-shirt reading ‘Yowie Country’, shorts and sandals, to a waiting police vehicle.
“Police also seized electronics and hard drives which will be subject to further forensic examination,” a NSW Police spokesperson said.
The shock arrest was made as part of Strike Force Trawler – an ongoing probe by Sex Crimes Squad investigators in the Child Exploitation Internet Unit, targeting the sexual abuse and exploitation of children facilitated through the internet and telecommunications devices.
“In February 2024, strike force detectives executed search warrants across the greater Sydney area targeting the online sharing and promotion of child abuse material, which led them to the online profile of a user under the pseudonym ‘Beast Boy’,” the NSW Police spokesperson said.
Following the dawn raid, the man was arrested and charged with eight counts of bestiality, six counts of producing bestiality material, and four counts of disseminating bestiality material.
He was also charged with possessing child abuse material and using a carriage service to access and solicit child abuse material.
NSW Police expect to lay more charges, the spokesperson said.
He appeared in Taree Local Court yesterday and was refused bail.