Overview
- Detectives executed six search warrants across Waterloo, Ultimo and Malabar on November 27, seizing devices containing thousands of child abuse videos.
- Police allege the material featured ritualistic or occult symbols and was circulated via a website administered internationally.
- The Strike Force Constantine probe identified a Sydney-based node communicating within a larger encrypted international network.
- Investigators say the men did not record the abuse, no victims have been identified so far, and cross-border inquiries continue.
- Landon Germanotta-Mills, 26, Stuart Woods Riches, 39, Mark Andrew Sendecky, 42, and Benjamin Raymond Drysdale, 46, were refused bail and face late-January court dates on charges including possessing, accessing and disseminating child abuse and bestiality material.