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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Alleged Bieber impersonator charged with more than 900 child sex   
   offenses   
      
      
   BRISBANE, Australia –  A 42-year-old Australian man who allegedly posed   
   as Justin Bieber online to solicit explicit images from children has   
   been charged with more than 900 child sex offenses, police said   
   Thursday.   
      
   Bieber, a 23-year-old Canadian pop singer, is currently in Australia   
   performing his "Purpose World Tour." Police have warned young fans and their   
   parents to be extra vigilant when using the internet.   
      
   Gordon Douglas Chalmers, a law lecturer at the Queensland University of   
   Technology in Brisbane, was charged in November with using Facebook and Skype   
   to impersonate the star, after tip-offs from U.S. and German authorities.   
   Chalmers was charged with    
   using a carriage service to procure and groom children for sex and to access   
   child pornography. He was also charged with possessing child porn.   
      
   As a result of warrants issued in November to search his social media and   
   messaging accounts and cloud servers, Chalmers was charged this week with   
   another 931 child sex offenses dating back a decade, including rape and making   
   child exploitation material,   
    a police statement said.   
      
   "The fact that so many children could believe that they were communicating   
   with this particular celebrity highlights the need for a serious rethink about   
   the way that we as a society educate our children about online safety," Police   
   Detective Inspector    
   Jon Rouse said in a statement.   
      
   "The breadth of offenses committed in this instance is frankly horrendous,"   
   Rouse added.   
      
   Police have not said how many children had become victims or in what countries   
   they live. But Rouse said the investigation showed "the global reach and skill   
   that child sex offenders have to groom and seduce victims."   
      
   Chalmers has yet to enter pleas. It is not clear how long he could spend in   
   prison if convicted.   
      
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