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Former Australian Taxation Office worker pleads guilty to child sex offences and indecent filming
A predator who secretly filmed girls and young women in an Adelaide park while on cigarette breaks from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) also pretended to be a girl on chat sites to catfish men, a court has heard.
Key points:
- Former ATO employee Alan Leon Baden has pleaded guilty to child sex offences
- Baden was in possession of nearly 400 child exploitation items across multiple devices
- His crimes were uncovered after an SD card was left at his workplace
Former ATO information officer Alan Leon Baden has pleaded guilty to 13 offences, including possessing child exploitation material and indecently filming children.
The 52-year-old will be sentenced in the South Australian District Court next month.
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