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Child protection police officer pleads not guilty to grooming charges of 15yo girl
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.
Key points:
- Matthew Hockley was a serving senior police constable at the Inala child protection and investigation unit in 2019
- It is alleged Mr Hockley sent messages to the teenager that escalated to a mostly sexual and inappropriate nature
- Mr Hockley’s defence lawyer told the court his client had not denied speaking with the 15-year-old
On the first day of his District Court trial in Brisbane, 33-year-old Matthew Paul Hockley pleaded not guilty to two counts of child…
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