An angry mother whose son slept over at the home of a scout leader accused of 129 child exploitation offences says parents are being kept in the dark over allegations against him.
Brock Emil Dittman, 31, appeared briefly in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Wednesday on 129 charges, including seven counts of indecent treatment of a child and 14 counts of making exploitation material.
Dittman was initially charged with 26 offences when his home was raided in April, but another 103 charges were added this month after Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigators forensically analysed cameras, computer equipment and hard drives seized during the raid.
A mother, whose son was led by Dittman in the cub scouts program, says Scouts Queensland have refused to address parents' concerns since the allegations first came to light in April.
"My son slept at his house and everything, because it was a scouts-approved weekend," the mother, who isn't being named to protect her 10-year-old son's privacy, told AAP.
She said parents initially weren't informed whether Dittman or his family, also involved in the group, had resigned or been stood down.
"No one from Scouts Queensland even showed up to talk to us about it (at a meeting)," she said.
"We didn't know whether our children were impacted."
It was left to parents to have "confronting and awkward" conversations with their sons about the allegations and whether they were involved.
"I hadn't even done the sex education talk with my son, so to explain that some people do these things to kids, it was really hard," she said.
Scouts Queensland said it still didn't know whether any scouts were involved.
"We have not been advised whether any of the charges are in relation to scout youth members," the organisation posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday.
The statement said Scouts Queensland was "extremely disturbed and saddened" by the latest charges and suspended Dittman immediately when it first became aware of charges against him.
Scouts Queensland directed further questions to the CCC.
Magistrate Virginia Sturgess on Wednesday adjourned all 129 charges against Dittman to be heard on December 16, to give the CCC enough time to provide a full brief of evidence to prosecutors on the fresh allegations.
FORMER SCOUT LEADER'S ALLEGED CRIMES
* 103 x using a carriage service to make available child pornography material
* 14 x making child exploitation material
* 7 x indecent treatment of a child under 16
* 3 x possessing child exploitation materials
* 1 x using carriage service to access child pornography material
* 1 x aggravated networking
(Source: Crime and Corruption Commission)
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