- Former A Current Affair reporter charged
- He was hit with 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.
As well as being the face of many of A Current Affair’s consumer stories, McCormack played a key role in exposing Hey Dad! paedophile Robert Hughes.
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 2010, after allegations of Hughes’ abuse first came to light, McCormack confronted the former sitcom star in Singapore.
McCormack phoned victim Sarah Monahan the result of Hughes’ 2014 trial after watching the guilty verdict in the courtroom.
McCormack was previously described by Channel Nine as a ’25 year veteran of the network’ before his employment with them came to an abrupt end in 2017.
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