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A Canberra teacher charged with child grooming offences has appeared in a Sydney court. Patrick Foley Wilson, 26, was charged after police assumed the online identity of a 13-year-old girl and spoke with him online. NSW Police have alleged he made a number of sexually explicit comments and talked of meeting the child. He was arrested in Parramatta last month and charged with using a carriage service to groom a person under the age of 16, and using a carriage service to send indecent material to a person under the age of 16. Wilson had worked at the boys Canberra Grammar School since the start of 2015, but the charges do not relate to his employment or the boys at the school. He had previously worked at Canberra Girls Grammar School. He appeared in the Parramatta Local Court on Wednesday, his first appearance since being charged and bailed by police. No pleas were entered and the matter was adjourned until October.

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