A man has faced Wollongong court today charged with possessing and producing child abuse material in his home.
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Detectives from Lake Illawarra Police District began investigating allegations of child abuse material made in June last year.
Detectives searched at a home south of Wollongong on June 23, seizing electronic devices for forensic examination.
They arrested a 43-year-old man at a business in Wollongong a short time later and charged him with offences relating to possessing child abuse material. He was remanded in custody.
The man has now been charged with additional crimes including sexual intercourse with a child, indecently assaulting a child, sixteen counts of producing child abuse material, seven counts of possessing child abuse material, seven counts of aggravated filming of a person in a private act and using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material.
Police will allege the man's devices contained more than 100,000 videos and pictures of child abuse, including pictures the man had taken in his home.
The man remains bail refused. His matter was briefly mentioned in Wollongong Local Court on Wednesday morning, and adjourned to February 24.
