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Police allege David Turner is involved in the spread of abuse.
FORMER COP ARRESTED
A former award-winning New South Wales police officer has been charged with multiple serious offences following an investigation into an alleged international child abuse material network, described by authorities as having “satanic” or “ritualistic” themes.
David Turner, a former sergeant who previously received public recognition for his service, was arrested in Sydney as part of an operation targeting an alleged online child abuse ring.
Police allege Turner was involved in accessing, possessing, and distributing child abuse material, including content described as “extremely graphic”.
He has also been charged with drug-related offences, after authorities allegedly located methamphetamine and ketamine during a search of his residence.
Turner, who had left the NSW Police Force under the Optional Disengagement Scheme, was employed with the NSW Telco Authority at the time of his arrest. His employer has since confirmed he has been suspended while the matter proceeds through the courts.
The former officer appeared in court following his arrest, where bail was refused. He is expected to remain in custody ahead of a future court date in 2026. Police stress that the charges remain allegations and that Turner is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
The arrest follows months of investigation by NSW Police under Strike Force Constantine, which was established to examine reports of child abuse material linked to what investigators describe as “ritualistic or satanic imagery”.
Authorities allege the material was shared within an international network using encrypted online platforms, which may be as large as over 150 people involved.
“This investigation relates to the possession and distribution of highly disturbing child abuse material,” the spokesperson said.
“The material is alleged to involve extreme acts of abuse and was shared within an international network.”
Late last year, four men were charged in Sydney over their alleged involvement in the same network. A fifth man was later arrested, bringing the total number of people charged in New South Wales to at least six, including Turner.
Police have indicated further arrests are possible as the investigation continues.
According to court documents and police statements, investigators uncovered thousands of files depicting the sexual abuse of children, including infants.
Some material allegedly involved themes of violence and bestiality. Authorities say the content was shared between members of the network, both locally and internationally.
Police have described the investigation as “one of the most disturbing they have undertaken”, with officers working closely alongside federal and overseas law enforcement agencies to identify victims and trace the origins of the material.
The involvement of a former police officer has prompted concern and condemnation, with NSW Police confirming Turner was no longer serving at the time of his arrest.
The force said it was cooperating fully with the investigation and reiterated that any form of child exploitation is abhorrent.
Child protection advocates have again called for stronger measures to prevent the online exploitation of children and to ensure swift identification of victims.
NSW Police have urged members of the public who encounter child abuse material online to report it immediately, emphasising that public cooperation remains critical in combating organised exploitation networks.
All individuals charged in connection with the alleged ring are yet to enter pleas. The matters will proceed through the courts over the coming months.
This is just the latest story in a never-ending saga against child predators here in Australia – one that seems to be getting worse with time, not better.
Is anyone a normal human being anymore?
Is there nowhere people can turn to be protected?
PREDATOR NETWORKS
Stories of child abuse have been become more commonplace and widespread in the internet age, as the sharing of such materials is made faster and more accessible.
This continues even to this day, with more stories emerging in the public sphere regularly.
For instance, there have been unverified social-media reports of a former Channel Nine reporter in Brisbane charged with multiple child abuse material counts.
Craig Silvey, a well‑known Australian novelist for books including Jasper Jones, was charged just this month with possessing and distributing child exploitation material following a police search of his Fremantle home. He is awaiting court appearances.
Alan Jones, the former high‑profile radio and media personality in Australia, was arrested and charged by NSW Police’s Child Abuse Squad in November 2024 with multiple historical indecent assault and sexual touching offences alleged to have occurred between 2001 and 2019. Charges alleged victims include individuals as young as 17.
Ongoing court proceedings have seen varying numbers of charges laid and later amended; Jones has pleaded not guilty and will contest the case.
Let’s also not forget William Wee Liat Tan, an Australian-born entrepreneur, Ms Oceania Pageant figure, social media personality, and leader once prominent in charitable circles.
He was charged in Queensland with numerous offences related to possessing and distributing child exploitation material – allegedly operating in online abuse networks, grooming minors and other child‑related sexual exploitation counts.
He is remanded in custody with cases adjourned, matter still before courts.
These are just the names of those who have been revealed publicly.
There is still much under the surface that still hasn’t been revealed.
In 2015, Liberal Party Senator Bill Heffernan claimed that there was a document listing 28 individuals accused of being paedophiles, including politicians and legal figures.
In this hearing on a Canberra spring day in 2015, he did not name names. There was a document, he said, that included “a whole lot of prominent people”.
It was a “police document”, and among the ‘28’ was a former Prime Minister.
“They were delivered to me by a police agency some time ago because no-one seems to want to deal with them,” he said.
Heffernan claimed he had gone to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse with the list.
The commission had begun just a few years earlier, and spent years investigating the sexual abuse of children in Australian schools, churches and other organisations, providing a painful confrontation of the scale and horrors of institutional complicity and failures to act.
Years later, this list has become a phantom, with references to “Expose the 28” a mainstay in some corners of the internet, and part of almost any protest of the ‘pandemic’ era.
Of course, this is just a ‘conspiracy theory’ at the end of the day, remember.
Don’t pay any attention to the ‘crazies’ who may have you believe it is more than a rumour.
It does seem quite the ‘coincidence’ just how many high-profile individuals always turn out to be involved in child abuse networks.
Let’s hope that the legal system does its job properly if David is found to be guilty – no more slaps on the wrist for these monsters in human form.
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Come on Sarge, Alan & “Wee Willie”: “Tell us it ain’t so!”
I wonder how many of Bill’s infamous “28” remain alive all these years later?