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Subscriber only A disgraced police officer who groomed a 15-year-old girl while working in a child protection unit was brazen and persistent in his efforts to corrupt the teenager, a court has heard. Former senior constable Matthew Paul Hockley, 33, had been investigating explicit images that were shared at the teenager s school when he added her on Snapchat and began sending her sexualised messages in 2019. Hockley faced Brisbane District Court on Friday to be sentenced after being found guilty of grooming a child under 16 to procure engagement in a sexual act and grooming a child under 16 with intent to expose to indecent matter.
A former child protection police officer in Brisbane accused of sending "sexual and suggestive" messages to a teenage girl he met during an investigation has been found guilty of child grooming offences.
Child protection police officer pleads not guilty to grooming charges of 15yo girl
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FebFebruary 2021 at 8:18am
Matthew Hockley has pleaded not guilty to two counts of child grooming and one count of using the internet to procure a child under 16.
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A child protection unit police officer allegedly made repeated sexual and suggestive comments to a 15-year-old girl he met during a revenge-porn investigation, including telling her she was a professional at taking nude photographs of herself , a Brisbane court has heard.
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Matthew Hockley was a serving senior police constable at the Inala child protection and investigation unit in 2019