Local Woman Charged For Child Sex Offences

A 29-year-old Jubilee Pocket woman has been charged for indecent treatment of a child and being involved in making and distributing child exploitation material.

She is one of seven individuals charged with 44 child sex offences, as part of a police investigation, codenamed Operation Uniform Amigua.

Thanks to arrests, six children under the age of 10 are now safe from further danger.

Also charged was a 27-year-old Aspley man with 17 charges, including grooming a parent or a carer of a child, indecent treatment of a child, and using a carriage service to access child abuse material.

A 44-year-old Hendra woman was charged with multiple drug offences, including supplying and possessing dangerous drugs, and a 26-year-old North Lakes woman was charged with indecent treatment of a child and being involved in making and distributing child exploitation material.

Operation Uniform Amigua was a joint taskforce, utilising officers from the Gateway Child Protection and Investigation Unit (CPIU) and the Whitsunday Criminal Investigation Branch (WIB), who executed six search warrants across Queensland and other jurisdictions from December last year.

Gateway Crime Group Detective Inspector John Mison said the successful operation was largely due to the fantastic collaboration with interstate counterparts.

“An organised network of child sexual abusers has been dismantled through a series of complex investigative strategies which has resulted in six children being rescued,” Detective Inspector Mison said.

“This extensive investigation relied on assistance from other investigative units within Queensland and throughout the country with the network stretching from Central Queensland to the southern states.

“We will continue to work on identifying these types of networks, rescuing children at risk of this offending and taking action against criminals involved in committing these types of heinous offences.”

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