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MAN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTING TO PROCURE A CHILD NEAR KEMPSEY

A man has been charged with attempting to procure a child on a train on the state’s mid-north coast.

Around 10pm yesterday, an 11-year-old boy was travelling between Taree and Kempsey when he was allegedly handed a note by a 42-year-old man sitting nearby.

Police say the letter contained sexual references and threats of violence.

The boy told guards on board the train and the man was subsequently arrested after the train stopped at Macksville, and taken into custody.

He was refused bail to appear at Macksville Local Court today.

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