Justin Bieber impersonator charged with over 900 child sex offences 
 
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 A Brisbane law professor posing as pop singer Justin Bieber online to solicit explicit images from young children has been charged with multiple serious offences. 
 
 The 42-year-old man, understood to be in prison, was charged in November 2016 with a number of child sex offences including possessing child exploitation material and using a carriage service to groom persons under 16. 
 
 After a thorough examination of the man's computer, he has this week been further charged with another 931 child sex offences, including, rape, indecent treatment of children, making child exploitation material, using a carriage service to procure person under 16, and using a carriage service for child pornography material. 
 
 It will be alleged that the man used multiple online platforms including Facebook and Skype to communicate with his victims. 
 
 A large amount of child exploitation material was seized from his computer. 
 
 It is alleged his offending dates back to at least 2007. 
 
 Detective Inspector Jon Rouse said Task Force Argos, which investigates child sex crimes, would continue to target those using the internet to harm children. 
 
 "This investigation demonstrates both the vulnerability of children that are utilising social media and communication applications and the global reach and skill that child sex offenders have to groom and seduce victims," Detective Inspector Rouse said. 
 
 "The fact that so many children could believe that they were communicating with this particular celebrity highlights the need for a serious rethink about the way that we as a society educate our children about online safety. 
 
 "The breadth of offences committed in this instance are frankly horrendous and I want to recognise the efforts and commitment of the investigative team at Taskforce Argos to keeping children safe." 
 
 The man will appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court on April 6. 
 
 Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld 
 
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 (CNN) A man who allegedly posed as singer Justin Bieber online has been charged with more than 900 child sex offenses, including rape. 
 
 The 42-year-old man allegedly used multiple platforms -- including Facebook and Skype -- to communicate with his victims, Australian police said in a statement Thursday. 
 
 "The breadth of offenses committed in this instance are frankly horrendous," Queensland Detective Inspector Jon Rouse said. 
 
 The man allegedly posed as Bieber in order to solicit explicit images from children under 16. 
 
 "This investigation demonstrates both the vulnerability of children that are utilizing social media and communication applications and the global reach and skill that child sex offenders have to groom and seduce victims," Rouse said. 
 
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– A man who reportedly pretended to be Justin Bieber online has been charged with more than 900 child sex offenses in a case police in Queensland, Australia, call "frankly horrendous." The 42-year-old Brisbane law professor was charged with grooming and exploiting children last fall and was charged with another 931 offenses, including rape, this week after cops found a huge amount of child exploitation material on his computer, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. "The breadth of offenses committed in this instance are frankly horrendous," says Queensland Detective Inspector Jon Rouse. Investigators believe his crimes go back at least 10 years. Police say the man, who's already in jail and will be back in court next month, used platforms like Facebook and Skype to communicate with his victims, pretending to be the Canadian singer to persuade children under 16 to send him explicit images, CNN reports. "The fact that so many children could believe that they were communicating with this particular celebrity highlights the need for a serious rethink about the way that we as a society educate our children about online safety," Rouse says. The Courier Mail identifies the suspect as Gordon Douglas Chalmers, who was refused bail after his arrest in November when he refused to let investigators access his online accounts.