BREAKING: Former Parramatta Eels star Brett Finch charged with sharing child abuse material
Former Eels star Brett Finch has been charged by police after allegedly sharing child abuse material.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Finch was arrested on Tuesday morning and taken to Kogarah Police Station where he was charged with five counts of using a carriage service to transmit, publish or promote child abuse material.
The 40-year-old was one of eight men arrested as part of the Strike Force Hank investigation. He was granted conditional bail to appear on Tuesday, January 11 at Sutherland Local Court.
The strike force also seized mobile phones, electronic items and illicit drugs during the raids.
“We will allege that each of the men arrested by detectives over the past month expressed desires to engage in sexual activity with children, and in some cases, attempted to access child abuse material from other users of the service,” Detective Superintendent Jayne Doherty told the The Daily Telegraph.
“Producing, disseminating or possessing child abuse material are serious offences, and detectives will continue to dismantle these types of operations, so children are free from harmful situations, exploitation and abuse.”
According to the Telegraph, Finch is believed to have accessed an online chat room where the offences are alleged to have taken place.
Police are understood to have traced the electronic devices behind those accessing the chat rooms to Finch and seven other men.
Finch retired from the NRL at the end of the 2013 season after 330 games for the Eels, Raiders, Roosters, Storm and Wigan Warriors after debuting in 1999.
Finch last weekend opened up over his personal battles since retiring from the NRL.
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Yup. Good old Daily T. "Former Eels star". Pitiful.
So he played for five different teams but he is a former Eels star. The telecrap love to hate the Eels the dirty bunch of FUCKWITS.
One thing he wasn't was an Eels star.
70 games at Canberra 95 at Roosters and 51 at the Eels and he's a former Eels star. It's quite disturbing news none the less.
Why not former Roosters star? They are a bunch of C..ts at the Telegraph
Agree 1000% why not former football star....someone owes Parra an apology
Totallly unwarranted and unprofessional to single out Parra like that.
Someone should apologise Poppa but being a cock head is a prerequisite when working for the DT
Mud like this just makes it more difficult to attract the kind of big money investment partners that we need.
He never played for the eels
ohh come on Basket :)))
He was never a star
There it is boys, he's a Parra Star.
So if he suffers concussion later on in life, Parra will be the sole defendant in any legal action taken by him.
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