00:00 At 1.35 yesterday police received a call from a person in a neighbouring property to an
00:07 address in Cable Beach in Broome who advised us that there were some children swimming
00:12 in an unoccupied pool at an address in Cable Beach.
00:18 About 10 minutes later police received a call from a male person who will say it was the
00:24 45 year old male person that had subsequently been charged that he had restrained three
00:29 children for causing damage at that location in the backyard.
00:34 Police attended and obviously located three children, two children at that time, one had
00:40 left that had been cable tied at that premises.
00:44 So investigations proceeded, the 45 year old man was taken into custody and taken to Broome
00:51 Police Station where investigations were undertaken.
00:56 He was subsequently charged with three counts of aggravated common assault.
01:01 So I'm free to take questions in relation to that incident.
01:05 What's your message to the Broome community at the moment?
01:08 Oh look, we've got a lot of police officers there, we've spoken to the family obviously
01:13 of the children.
01:14 They're very keen for the court process to proceed as it is the person's been charged.
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