Seven people - including a teenage girl - from a NSW circus training school are in police custody charged with the ongoing sexual and physical torture of three young boys over a two-year period.
Four women, two men, and a 17-year-old girl were arrested on Monday night by detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad operating under Strike Force Baillieu.
Police say the group sexually and physically abused the three boys under the age of eight, between 2014 and 2016.
The alleged abuse by some members of the group included sadistic "blood rituals".
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Detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad established Strike Force Baillieu last July to investigate reports of sexual and physical abuse of three boys.
All seven were refused bail to appear in various courts on Tuesday. They are facing a total of 127 offences between them.
A 17-year-old girl, an 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman will appear at a children's court.
Two women, one aged 26 and another 58, and a 52-year-old man - will appear at Penrith Local Court. Another woman, 29, will appear at Burwood Local Court.
The charges range from assault and kidnapping to aggravated sexual assault in company (child under 10) to using a child under 14 to make child abuse material.
