A Sydney man has been charged with child grooming after police posed as a 14-year-old girl online and arranged to meet with him for sex.
The 36-year-old man was arrested in Parramatta on Friday after detectives allegedly struck up multiple conversations with him under the online identity of a teenager.
During the interactions the man made sexually explicit comments and arranged to meet her to engage in sexual activity, police said.
Following his arrest, they searched a home in Pennant Hills and seized computers, a smart phone and other computer equipment.
Authorities said they were first alerted to the man's suspicious online activity by the Australian Federal Police and National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in the US.
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A police spokesman would not provide AAP with details of the nature of the intelligence that led to the investigation.
The man has been charged with using a carriage service to procure a child under 16 years of age for sexual activity.
He was given conditional bail and is due to appear at Parramatta Local Court on October 16.
