Brisbane Times ·general ·2 hours ago

Autistic teenager ‘groomed’ by AFP sentenced for separate terrorism offence

An autistic teenager pleaded guilty to threatening a Melbourne synagogue and sharing violent extremist material, receiving a 12-month supervision order Thursday after spending 357 days in custody. The 18-year-old's earlier terrorism charges were dismissed after a magistrate found Australian Federal Police had "encouraged" his radicalisation through a covert operative.

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