Detectives have charged a 58 year old male and a 57 year old female with a number of offences, including gross indecency with a child, aiding and abetting gross indecency with a child, incitement to commit an act of gross indecency, indecent assault, making indecent images of children, possession of indecent images of children and distribution of indecent images of children.xa0 They are expected to appear before Downpatrick Magistrates Court onxa0Thursday 1 February.
The charges are in connection with an investigation into the sexual abuse of children.xa0 Police conducted searches at a house in the Kinghill Avenue area of Newcastle on Monday and Tuesday as part of this investigation.






