Teen charged over child porn offences A TEENAGER has been charged with child porn offences after an 11-year-old girl allegedly posted her personal information online to find work as a model. An Essendon man, 19, was arrested this morning at his home by Astraea Taskforce detectives, who also seized computer equipment. The man was charged with using a carriage service to solicit child pornography and was bailed to appear in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court on August 23. The taskforce was set up last year to crack down on the exploitation of children online. Detective Senior Sergeant Rob Ridley said the case was a warning to parents to be vigilant about what their children were doing on the internet. "Personal information can be and is misused by people who trick or coerce children into sending information and sometimes explicit images of themselves via social media and web pages," he said. Reputable modelling agencies will not solicit sexually explicit photographs of children in any setting, and in particular not through random contacts through the internet.