A former Year 6 teacher at Lumen Christi has had a child procurement charge replaced with a second charge of sending indecent material to a child.
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Police allege Stephen Bonnett, 37, earlier this year engaged in online conversations of a sexual nature with an officer posing as a 13-year-old girl.
After making a number of inquiries into the matter, detectives executed a search warrant at a home in Bega on June 19 and seized a number of electronic devices.
That same morning, they attended Lumen Christi Catholic College in Pambula and arrested the teacher.
Bonnett was taken to Bega Police Station and charged with using a carriage service to procure a person under 16 for sexual activity, and using a carriage service to transmit indecent communication to a person under 16.
In Bega Local Court on Tuesday, December 8, the charge of using a carriage service to procure a person under 16 years old for sexual activity was withdrawn.
However, Bonnett now faces two counts of using a carriage service to send indecent material to a person under 16 years old.
A plea of not guilty was previously entered for one charge, while Bonnett is yet to enter a plea for the amended charge.
The case was adjourned by Magistrate Doug Dick to January 19 next year for committal or a plea from Bonnett with bail to continue.
Bonnett's bail conditions were changed in August allowing him to seek work opportunities in the Lavington area, north of Albury.
