Warning: This story contains details of alleged child sex abuse that may distress some audience members.
More than a thousand children will be asked to undergo health screening after police charged a childcare worker with more than 70 offences allegedly linked to a childcare centre in Point Cook, in Melbourne’s south-west.
Detectives from the Sexual Crimes Squad have arrested 26-year-old Point Cook man Joshua Dale Brown in relation to alleged sexual and other offending against eight children at Creative Garden Early Learning Centre between April 2022 and January 2023.
They said the alleged victims were between five months and two years of age.
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