CANBERRA, ACT, April 30 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:

A Northern Territory man has been sentenced to nine years and nine months' imprisonment after being convicted of 20 offences relating to child abuse material.

The man, 52, was sentenced in the Katherine Local Court today (30 April, 2026) for offences involving the accessing, possessing and transmitting of child abuse material.

The man will serve a non-parole period of four years and six months' imprisonment.

The investigation began after the AFP received more than 20 separate reports from the United States' National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about an Australian-based user uploading child abuse material online.

The Northern T...