A Qantas formation attendant and erstwhile constabulary serviceman had enactment with a Year 7 lad astatine his location portion his parents were out.
Mark Ward pleaded blameworthy to aggregate offences including possessing kid maltreatment worldly astatine Campbelltown Local Court this week, the Macarthur Chronicle reported.
The tribunal heard however the paedophile contacted the underage unfortunate connected Grindr successful 2017 aft helium had near the constabulary unit and was moving arsenic a formation attendant for Qantas.
Ward past moved the speech with the 14-year-old to Snapchat wherever helium sent pictures of him successful his aged constabulary azygous and asked intersexual questions.
Eventually, helium pressured the unfortunate into allowing him to sojourn his location for enactment and erstwhile the lad again brought up his age, Ward said 'that's chill with me'.
Ward had enactment with the unfortunate successful his bedroom, which was chopped abbreviated erstwhile the lad warned his parents would soon return, contempt Ward begging to continue.
According to tribunal documents, the unfortunate spoke up aft helium told a person successful 2023 that helium had had enactment with a feline 'in his 40s oregon 50s' erstwhile helium was a minor.
To which his person replied: 'What the f**k, you request to archer somebody.'
The tribunal heard helium pursued a 14-year-old lad for enactment portion moving arsenic a formation attendant
When constabulary were notified they enactment successful spot a sting to drawback Ward by making a fake Grindr illustration of different 14-year-old lad successful his country of Campbelltown, successful Sydney's south.
Despite an astir six twelvemonth spread betwixt the offence they were investigating and their sting, Ward messaged the illustration asking for 'nudes'.
Ward past sent explicit messages and nude images of himself to the illustration being tally by an undercover cop.
Police past swooped connected his St Andrews code and seized his physics devices.
Investigators accessed his Telegram and recovered messages talking astir his attraction to underage boys.
Mark Ward pleaded blameworthy to aggregate offences including possessing kid maltreatment worldly astatine Campbelltown Local Court
Officers besides recovered 9 files of kid maltreatment worldly including 1 of a lad nether 12 performing oral enactment connected a man.
Ward has pleaded blameworthy to having intersexual intercourse with a child, utilizing a carriage work to nonstop indecent worldly to a idiosyncratic nether 16 and possessing kid maltreatment material.
He volition instrumentality to tribunal for sentencing aboriginal this year.
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