Melbourne childcare worker charged with sexual abuse offences as 1,200 children to be tested for infectious diseases
by Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6YB9Z)
Victoria police allege Point Cook man Joshua Brown sexually assaulted infants and children in his care at a western suburbs childcare centre
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Victorian health authorities are recommending that 1,200 children are tested for infectious diseases after a Melbourne childcare worker was charged with allegedly sexually abusing infants and children in his care.
Police on Tuesday confirmed that a Point Cook resident, Joshua Brown, 26, had been charged in May with more than 70 offences relating to eight alleged victims aged between five months and two years old.
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