Plush toys, lollies, a drone and a picnic rug: Inside an accused paedophile’s backpack – as he’s pinned down by a heroic bystander after ‘sexually touching’ two kids, 4 and 6, outside their home
- A heroic bystander performed a dramatic citizen’s arrest in Sydney this week
- He caught an elderly man allegedly filming and touching young children
- The man, 68, allegedly offered the children, aged four and six, lollies
- He was hit with a string of charges including producing child abuse material
A heroic bystander has performed a dramatic citizen’s arrest on an alleged predator with a backpack filled with toys and lollies.
Police allege the man, 68, spotted two children – aged four and six – playing in the front yard of their unit complex in Campsie, Sydney, on Wednesday at 6.30pm.
The accused paedophile allegedly offered them lollies while he filmed the children and sexually touched one of them.
A Good Samaritan spotted the elderly man and pinned him to the ground until police arrived and arrested him.
The elderly man allegedly had a bag filled with lollies, soft toys and a drone
Police were seen swarming the elderly man as he lay face down on the grass in the front yard.
In footage, which was shared on social media, a police officer can be seen thanking the Good Samaritan who had stepped in to help.
The alleged paedophile can be heard groaning in the footage as lay on the ground before the man who caught him yelled for him to stay down.
‘You f***ing mutt. Face down you piece of s**t,’ the man can be heard saying.
The elderly man’s bag was allegedly filled with lollies, soft toys and a drone.
He also allegedly had a digital camera with a picture of a child sitting on a towel.
‘He has everything, from lollies, plush toys and drones. Everything that can possibly appeal to any age child – he has it,’ the hero bystander said in the footage.
‘This is how he lures kids.
The man was taken to Campsie Police Station and hit with a string of charges including producing child abuse material, intentionally sexually touch child under 10 years and two counts of common assault.
He was refused bail to appear before Burwood Local Court today.
Police were seen swarming the elderly man as he lay face down on the grass at the park in Auburn on Wednesday
‘He has everything, from lollies, plush toys and drones. Everything that can possibly appeal to any age child – he has it,’ the footage, which was shared on Facebook, said