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Australian man jailed for six and a half years for persistent sexual abuse of young Filipino girl
An Australian man who flew to the Philippines and sexually abused a teenage girl has been sentenced to six and a half years in jail.
Key points:
- Rex George Harrison repeatedly assaulted a teenage girl in the Philippines
- He first met the girl in 2016 then returned in July 2017 and abused her again
- He was arrested at Brisbane Airport trying to return to the Philippines in October 2017
Rex George Harrison, 66, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to charges including persistent sexual abuse of a child outside Australia, using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material and possessing child exploitation material.
Crown prosecutor Jessica Goldie told the court Harrison flew to the Philippines in November 2016 and met the…
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