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A Melbourne music teacher and his boyfriend have admitted to more than 60 child sex offences between them, including performing sexual acts in front of minors and sexual assault.

Couple Benjamin John Heels and Tristan Dayle Cullinan-Smayle, both 33, pleaded guilty to the raft of charges before Judge Helen Symes in the County Court of Victoria on Thursday.

Heels, an ex-music teacher at Fountain Gate Secondary College in Narren Warren in Melbourne’s populous southeast, pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual conduct with a child under the age of 16 in the suburb of Pakenham from January to May last year.

He also notified the court of his intention to plead guilty to more charges of sexually assaulting a minor, sexual activity in the presence of a child, using a carriage service to transmit child sex abuse material and possessing child sex abuse material.

Cullinan-Smayle pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to encourage a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity with him in Berwick in 2017.

He also said he intended to plead guilty to charges of transmitting child pornography, possessing child abuse material, and using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/courts-law/teacher-and-boyfriend-plead-guilty-to-child-sex-offences/news-story/85ed006a5e54281b8d4a68b9c94ef9a0