{"id":42873,"date":"2026-07-02T07:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/42873\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T07:52:12","slug":"sunshine-coast-man-charged-over-alleged-offshore-child-abuse-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/42873\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine Coast man charged over alleged offshore child abuse offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A Sunshine Coast man has faced court after being charged by the Australian Federal Police with child abuse offences, including the alleged live online sexual abuse of children overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Anthony Brian Jones, 40, faced Caloundra Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AFP officers allege he paid for and took part in the live online sexual abuse of a child overseas and provided abuse instruction to an adult facilitator located in the Philippines with the child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He was arrested in April after investigators executed a search warrant at a Caloundra home and seized multiple electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A 40-year-old man talking to his female lawyer outside a courthouse. \" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/729334658a6cb00f02a832aaacb39f5b.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Anthony Brian Jones faced Caloundra Magistrates Court on offshore child abuse charges. (ABC News: Madeline Grace)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The man is charged with one count each of using a carriage service for child abuse material, sexual activity with a child outside Australia, and sexual intercourse with a child outside Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers started investigating in February after the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received a report from the US Department of Homeland Security Investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Jones was granted bail and had his charges adjourned to August 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AFP Detective Superintendent Adrian Telfer said they worked closely with local, national, and international partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;The AFP is now working closely with our partner agencies overseas to identify the child victims and facilitator and to ensure the child is removed from further harm,&#8221; Detective Superintendent Telfer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sunshine Coast man has faced court after being charged by the Australian Federal Police with child abuse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[103,22,21,33472,834,1109,1047,1076],"class_list":["post-42873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-afp","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-caloundra","tag-child-abuse-offences","tag-court","tag-police","tag-sunshine-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}