A stomach-churning trove of digital abuse material has been uncovered on the Central Coast, with the alleged owner and producer of the content facing more than 200 charges for covertly filming sexual interactions he had with three different women over a seven-year period, many of which were allegedly non-consensual and intensely graphic in nature.
NSW Police has allegedly uncovered more than 2.5 million files “containing the sexual and physical abuse of three different women” at the hands of Christopher Ridings, 38, a Central Coast local and prison inmate.
Police said the initial discovery of hard drives that are said to contain the material took place at a home in Tumbi Umbi in December 2025 as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged domestic violence incident.
Following extensive investigations, Mr Ridings, who is in jail at Wellington Correctional Centre in the state’s central west for unrelated crimes, was arrested in prison on Monday for his alleged ownership and production of the shocking stash of content.
Mr Ridings has been charged with 228 separate offences, including 109 counts of recording images without somebody’s consent, 57 counts of being an accessory to sexual intercourse without consent and 12 counts of aggravated sexual assault through deprivation of liberty.
He has also been charged with 10 counts of sexual intercourse without consent, five counts of sexual assault in company with others, four counts of kidnapping with intent to commit an offence, four counts of filming somebody in a private act without consent, three counts of stalking/intimidating with intent to cause fear or physical harm, two counts of administering a poison, one count of coercive control, one count of sexually assaulting a person under the age of 16, one count of wounding a person and one count of sexual assault by forced self-manipulation.