A teacher has been charged after allegedly trying to groom a teenage girl on social media.
Police first received reports of a man attempting to encourage a 14-year-old girl to send sexually explicit material on March 18.
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They allege the man had offered to pay money for the material.
The report was investigated by detectives from NSW Police’s Sex Crimes Squad, who arrested a man at a home in Beecroft, northwest Sydney, about 5.45am on Thursday.
He was filmed being loaded into the back of a police vehicle before being taken to Gladesville Police Station.
Police charged him with use of a carriage service to groom a woman aged under 16 years old for sex and to access child abuse material.
He was refused bail and is expected to appear before Burwood Local Court on Thursday.
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