By Thomas Duff For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 02:09 GMT, 11 March 2019 | Updated: 02:09 GMT, 11 March 2019
A bureaucratic bungle led to the deportation of an alleged notorious female child pornographer before her trial.
Areum Lee, 29, is a Korean woman who faced charges in Australia over the alleged possession and distribution of child pornography material.
An alleged stuff-up between the Northern Territory Police and the Australian Border Force led to Lee being deported back to her home country without facing any of the charges against her.
Areum Lee, 29, is a Korean woman who faced charges in Australia on two counts of possessing child abuse material and two counts of using a carriage service to make child abuse material available online
Lee came to Australia to work as an au pair but was arrested after a joint investigation by NT Police and the Border Force in November 2017.
She was charged with two counts of possessing child abuse material and two counts of using a carriage service to make child abuse material available online.
The pornographic material Lee allegedly possessed was classified by police as Category