High-profile Channel Nine reporter Ben McCormack is slapped with more than 60 child abuse material offences
A former Channel Nine reporter has been charged with more than 60 offences related to child abuse material.
Ben McCormack, who worked for A Current Affair, was charged on Saturday with 64 counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material and one count of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material to self.
McCormack has also been charged with three counts of failing to comply with reporting obligations and one count of giving false or misleading information.
He is accused of committing the offences on 65 occasions from his address in Oxley, Brisbane, on various dates last year.
The 51-year-old had his case briefly mentioned in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Monday.
He was not required to appear in person.
No application for bail was made and his Legal Aid duty lawyer Zane Playle asked for the matter to be adjourned to September 5.
McCormack played a key role in exposing Hey Dad! paedophile Robert Hughes, tracking the former sitcom star down in Singapore in 2010.
Ben McCormack, who worked for A Current Affair, was charged on Saturday with 64 counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material and one count of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material to self
In 2014, he relayed news of a jury’s guilty verdict to victim Sarah Monahan, who he had befriended.
Hughes was convicted of indecent and sexual assault for offences against four girls, including Ms Monahan.
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