Man Charged With 116 Offences ‘Targeted Girls Online’

Children have been warned “stranger danger” can occur in their own rooms after a man accused of targeting minors online was charged with more than 100 offences. Dion Adam Lingard, 31, is in custody after allegedly grooming two girls – aged between 12 and 14 – online before meeting them in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. After detectives executed a search warrant at a Sunshine Coast property in February, Mr. Lingard has been charged with 116 offences. They include rape, stalking, taking a child for immoral purposes, indecent treatment of a child, possession of and making child exploitation material and supplying dangerous drugs. “We are still going through a plethora of material that was seized that day,” Detective Inspector Chris Toohey told reporters on March 13....