Landon Germanotta-Mills, 26, was arrested in Waterloo last week and charged with multiple counts of possessing child abuse and bestiality material. Photo: NSW Police via ABC News
Australian police have busted what they allege is an international "satanic" child sex abuse material ring operating out of the suburbs of Sydney.
Four men were last week charged by the NSW Police's Child Exploitation Internet Unit after an investigation into "ritualistic and satanic"-themed child abuse, police said.
NSW Police allege a group of four Sydney men at the centre of their investigation were involved in allegedly distributing the material of children online.
Police-supplied vision shows the moment tactical officers smashed down the door of Landon Germanotta-Mills's Waterloo unit last Thursday morning.
The 26-year-old has been charged with several counts of making available, accessing and possessing child abuse material.
He has also been charged with two counts each of disseminating and possessing bestiality material.
NSW Police storming the Waterloo unit of Landon Germanotta-Mills last Thursday. Photo: NSW Police via ABC News
Police allege he "played a leading role" in what they described was a network of Sydney paedophiles using a foreign-based website to share the material of minors.
Magistrate Margaret Quinn described the material found by police as "disturbing" as Germanotta-Mills's lawyer Stefan Skopelja applied for bail last Friday.
Germanotta-Mills, who was watching the hearing from custody at Surry Hills Police Station, was refused bail and will remain in custody until he fronts court again next year.
In Malabar police also arrested three other men - aged 46, 42 and 39 - and charged them with multiple counts of possessing child abuse and bestiality material.
They too were refused bail by police and faced a Bail Division Court last Friday.
- ABC
