A man has appeared in court on 16 charges relating to making, distributing and possessing child pornography.
He also faces a charge of doing an indecent act on a child.
The man, who is in his 40s and has been granted interim name suppression, appeared in the Rotorua District Court yesterday.
He entered no pleas to four charges of making child pornography, two charges of distributing child pornography, 10 charges of possessing child pornography and a charge of doing an indecent act. The offending is alleged to have been committed between October 20, 2010 and May 12, 2011.
His lawyer Andy Schulze said a mental health report had been carried out and there did not seem to be any hindrance to the legal process continuing.
