Fed: Youth worker arrested for sexual assault

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2007
Fed: Youth worker arrested for sexual assault

A Canberra youth worker's been arrested on several sexual assault charges involving children.

Police searched the 20-year-old's home in the southern Canberra suburb of Banks earlier
today .. and seized a number of items.

The man's part of a local youth organisation and police say while the offences didn't
happen while the victims were under his direct care .. they came to know him through the
organisation.

He's due to appear in the ACT Magistrates Court this afternoon on a number of charges
of sexual intercourse with a young person .. acts of indecency with a young person and
possession of child pornography.

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KEYWORD: WORKER (CANBERRA)

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