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.

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…