A man and woman will appear in Downpatrick magistrates court this morning charged with a string of child sex offences including 'gross indecency with a child'.
The charges followed searches of a house in the Kinghill Avenue area of Newcastle, Co Down, on Tuesday.
The 58-year-old male and a 57-year-old female have been charged with a number of offences, including gross indecency with a child, aiding and abetting gross indecency with a child, incitement to commit an act of gross indecency, indecent assault, making indecent images of children, possession of indecent images of children and distribution of indecent images of children.
The charges are connected to an ongoing investigation into the sexual abuse of children.
