Man Charged With 116 Offences ‘Targeted Girls Online’

The charges include rape, stalking, taking a child for immoral purposes, indecent treatment of a child, possession of and making child exploitation material and

Police attend the scene of a multiple stabbing in Cairns, Australia, on Dec. 19, 2014. Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images

Children have been warned “stranger danger” can occur in their own rooms after a man accused of targeting minors online was charged with more than 100 offences.

Dion Adam Lingard, 31, is in custody after allegedly grooming two girls - aged between 12 and 14 - online before meeting them in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.