A 26-year-old Melbourne childcare worker is facing 70 charges relating to eight pre-schoolers aged between five months and two years.
Joshua Brown's worked across 20 centres since 2017 - and is accused of sexual assault and producing child abuse material.
The parents of 1200 children who'd been in his care have been advised to screen them for infectious diseases.
Australian correspondent Murray Olds says authorities are warning the parents to get their children tested - and treated.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A four year old boy in Northeast India has almost
pulled off a daring escape from kindy. He grabbed his backpack,
he dashed off down the road, but he didn't get
very far because he was on foot and the teachers
were also on foot, but a lot faster. When the
teachers caught up with him and then cut him off,
the boy initially threw a bit of a tanty, but
he calmed down then agreed to come back to kindy
when he was offered a pack of muffins, which is
(00:21):
rewarding bad behavior.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
International correspondence with ends in eye insurance peace of mind
for New Zealand business. Murray Old doesn't correspondence to us,
he mus The bribery always works, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Ah, Yeah, but you only defer. You just delayed the problem,
don't you. Don't you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You do put it off.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That's for you'd know about that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Listen, this childcare worker business is grim, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Dreadful? Dreadful and lots and lots of parents in Melbourne
are for those obsensitive dispositions. You may want to turn
off the radio because this is pretty it's pretty confronting,
to be honest, isn't it. As a twenty six year
old man, he's been a childcare worker at twenty different
centers across Melbourne, been in custody since May, since last month,
well a bigger part in the month before, after the
(01:09):
alleged discovery of child abuse material led police to him.
Now it's alleged that he's committed these offenses seventy different
offenses involving eight alleged victims between five months old and
two years at one center in western Melbourne between April
twenty twenty two and January twenty twenty three. Here's the thing,
(01:33):
the Chief Health that the Chief Health Officer of Melbourne
has recommended twelve hundred children now be tested. Authorities say
they may have been exposed to infections. We don't know
which infections, but authorities are saying to mums and dads
the children potentially were exposed to infections that may be
treated with antibiotics. So, as I say, this is unfolding today,
(01:58):
shocked right across Melbourne, particularly in the southwest suburbs of Melbourne.
As I say, twenty childcare said, is this accused person's
worked at over over some years. He's twenty six years old.
We'll find out more than next day or two. Jude.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
These allegations are going to do nothing for men who
work in Eceea.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Gosh, no, of course not man.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's rough, Okay, all right, what's going on with the weather.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Then, well, we've got what they're calling a weather bomb.
It's a big low pressure systems formed off the New
South Wales coast. It's tracking south and it's getting stronger
in intensity. Came south from roughly, I suppose, just below
the Queensland border. It's sitting off city right now. I'm
(02:45):
looking down on Manly Beach. I can't barely see Manly Beach.
And it's bringing up to two hundred mills of rain.
It's bringing wind gusts of one hundred and twenty five
one hundred and thirty ks an hour, seven meter swells
off the coast. Are going to have surfers out there
doing their best, but authorities saying, don't be daft, do
not be crazy at all. So the worst is yet
(03:07):
to come. The Weather Bureau forecasting even stronger winds and
heavier rain tonight and into tomorrow. You've had flights canceled
at the airport incoming and outgoing public transports a bit
of a mess. Sydney Harbor ferries canceled. This is a
rain bomb. You just have to hunker down and do
your best, I suppose, but you know, flash flooding is
a real is a real possibility. And those poor buggers
(03:30):
up north Heather who were in the firing line with
that big, big storm, the big flooding of only a
few weeks ago, they're copying it again. Yeah, so it
really is for them. It's just it's deja vu mas.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Now, what about this junk food this junk food ad band?
What do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, well, it's for the first for the first time
in Australia. It's in force now in South Australia. It's
the first jurisdiction right across the state. Every bus, every
you know, bus shelter that you wait for, the bus
stop at railway or public transport and so on. Foods
that are high and sold and fat are banned from
(04:08):
these places. And of course they've occupied Philly prominent places
for these ads. This has been taken from a band
we understand that was introduced some time ago in London
and apparently that did lead to a sharp reduction in
the consumption of junk food can help parents make better
choices too. If these ads aren't there, the kids can't
(04:28):
be triggered. There was something that I heard this morning.
What's it called. It's called now I can't read my
bloody notes. There's some new marketing phrase that some gurus
come up with that basically says, moms and dads are captive.
The kids are in the back of the car. They
go past the bus stop, Mom and dad do the
instant left hand turn and going get the dirty bird
(04:50):
of the mackers. So there's a whole lot of pressure
on parents and anything that can help because the government
here both sides, the soft drink lobby. He there's this
frantic rejection of any attempt to impose attacks on sugary
on sugary foods and drinks, they say, oh no, no, no,
it's freedom of a choice. No, it's not make them
(05:11):
more expensive, fewer people will eat them and drink them.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Maz what's the phrase?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I can't find it?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, Okay, I'm gonna hang up on you, but you
have a look, because now I'm fascinated. Find it and
then let us know, and then I'll make sure I
let everybody know better be good as well. By the way,
it's Murray Old's Australia correspondent. By the way, the jury
is still out in the air in Patterson trial, so
we're into more than what like twenty fourish hours. So
the hotel must be quite nice or somebody thinks she's
(05:41):
not guilty. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen
live to news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
A four year old boy in Northeast India has almost
pulled off a daring escape from kindy. He grabbed his backpack,
he dashed off down the road, but he didn't get
very far because he was on foot and the teachers
were also on foot, but a lot faster. When the
teachers caught up with him and then cut him off,
the boy initially threw a bit of a tanty, but
he calmed down then agreed to come back to kindy
when he was offered a pack of muffins, which is
(00:21):
rewarding bad behavior.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
International correspondence with ends in eye insurance peace of mind
for New Zealand business. Murray Old doesn't correspondence to us,
he mus The bribery always works, doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Ah, Yeah, but you only defer. You just delayed the problem,
don't you. Don't you?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You do put it off.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
That's for you'd know about that.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Listen, this childcare worker business is grim, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Dreadful? Dreadful and lots and lots of parents in Melbourne
are for those obsensitive dispositions. You may want to turn
off the radio because this is pretty it's pretty confronting,
to be honest, isn't it. As a twenty six year
old man, he's been a childcare worker at twenty different
centers across Melbourne, been in custody since May, since last month,
well a bigger part in the month before, after the
(01:09):
alleged discovery of child abuse material led police to him.
Now it's alleged that he's committed these offenses seventy different
offenses involving eight alleged victims between five months old and
two years at one center in western Melbourne between April
twenty twenty two and January twenty twenty three. Here's the thing,
(01:33):
the Chief Health that the Chief Health Officer of Melbourne
has recommended twelve hundred children now be tested. Authorities say
they may have been exposed to infections. We don't know
which infections, but authorities are saying to mums and dads
the children potentially were exposed to infections that may be
treated with antibiotics. So, as I say, this is unfolding today,
(01:58):
shocked right across Melbourne, particularly in the southwest suburbs of Melbourne.
As I say, twenty childcare said, is this accused person's
worked at over over some years. He's twenty six years old.
We'll find out more than next day or two. Jude.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
These allegations are going to do nothing for men who
work in Eceea.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Gosh, no, of course not man.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That's rough, Okay, all right, what's going on with the weather.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Then, well, we've got what they're calling a weather bomb.
It's a big low pressure systems formed off the New
South Wales coast. It's tracking south and it's getting stronger
in intensity. Came south from roughly, I suppose, just below
the Queensland border. It's sitting off city right now. I'm
(02:45):
looking down on Manly Beach. I can't barely see Manly Beach.
And it's bringing up to two hundred mills of rain.
It's bringing wind gusts of one hundred and twenty five
one hundred and thirty ks an hour, seven meter swells
off the coast. Are going to have surfers out there
doing their best, but authorities saying, don't be daft, do
not be crazy at all. So the worst is yet
(03:07):
to come. The Weather Bureau forecasting even stronger winds and
heavier rain tonight and into tomorrow. You've had flights canceled
at the airport incoming and outgoing public transports a bit
of a mess. Sydney Harbor ferries canceled. This is a
rain bomb. You just have to hunker down and do
your best, I suppose, but you know, flash flooding is
a real is a real possibility. And those poor buggers
(03:30):
up north Heather who were in the firing line with
that big, big storm, the big flooding of only a
few weeks ago, they're copying it again. Yeah, so it
really is for them. It's just it's deja vu mas.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Now, what about this junk food this junk food ad band?
What do you make of that?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Well, well, it's for the first for the first time
in Australia. It's in force now in South Australia. It's
the first jurisdiction right across the state. Every bus, every
you know, bus shelter that you wait for, the bus
stop at railway or public transport and so on. Foods
that are high and sold and fat are banned from
(04:08):
these places. And of course they've occupied Philly prominent places
for these ads. This has been taken from a band
we understand that was introduced some time ago in London
and apparently that did lead to a sharp reduction in
the consumption of junk food can help parents make better
choices too. If these ads aren't there, the kids can't
(04:28):
be triggered. There was something that I heard this morning.
What's it called. It's called now I can't read my
bloody notes. There's some new marketing phrase that some gurus
come up with that basically says, moms and dads are captive.
The kids are in the back of the car. They
go past the bus stop, Mom and dad do the
instant left hand turn and going get the dirty bird
(04:50):
of the mackers. So there's a whole lot of pressure
on parents and anything that can help because the government
here both sides, the soft drink lobby. He there's this
frantic rejection of any attempt to impose attacks on sugary
on sugary foods and drinks, they say, oh no, no, no,
it's freedom of a choice. No, it's not make them
(05:11):
more expensive, fewer people will eat them and drink them.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Maz what's the phrase?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
I can't find it?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Okay, Okay, I'm gonna hang up on you, but you
have a look, because now I'm fascinated. Find it and
then let us know, and then I'll make sure I
let everybody know better be good as well. By the way,
it's Murray Old's Australia correspondent. By the way, the jury
is still out in the air in Patterson trial, so
we're into more than what like twenty fourish hours. So
the hotel must be quite nice or somebody thinks she's
(05:41):
not guilty. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen
live to news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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