A CANBERRA man has been charged with child-sex offences after a Colorado mother allegedly pimped her 12-year-old daughter to him for online sex encounters. 
AFP Child Protection Operations yesterday confirmed 23-year-old Thomas Keski-Nummi-Wilson, from Higgins, was arrested on   October 8 after Colorado police and the FBI asked for assistance.
He appeared in a bail hearing in the ACT Magistrates Court in Canberra on Thursday charged with grooming a young person online. He has not entered a plea and the outcome of his bail application is not known.
The girl's mother has also been charged in the US with human trafficking of a minor for sexual servitude, pimping of a child and pattern sexual assault of a child.
According to a warrant, the child met Keski in an online chat room in the middle of last year.The mother's 22-year-old son called police in   January after Keski and his mother travelled from Australia to Colorado to meet the woman and her daughter.