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ABC News
9 hours ago
- Health
- ABC News
Industry leaders call for reform following childcare sex abuse
There are calls for urgent Federal Government intervention following a series of sickening abuse allegations in the early childhood education sector. The latest, a 26-year-old childcare worker from Melbourne has been charged with more then 70 child sex offences prompting a major investigation involving more than two-and-a-half-thousand families across 20 child care centres across Victoria. Authorities say it's a deeply distressing time for parents, urging at least 1,000 children to get tested for infectious diseases.


SBS Australia
19 hours ago
- SBS Australia
Melbourne childcare worker charged with multiple child sexual abuse offences
Melbourne childcare worker charged with multiple child sexual abuse offences Published 1 July 2025, 7:12 am A warning that the following report contains distressing details. In a case that Victoria 's premier has called 'every parent's worst nightmare', authorities are urging 12 hundred young children in Victoria be tested for sexually transmitted diseases, after a childcare worker was charged with sexual abuse offences. The alleged offender worked at several childcare centres across Melbourne.

ABC News
a day ago
- ABC News
Childcare worker accused of sexual assaults at centre in Melbourne
A childcare worker has been charged with 70 offences, including sexual assault and producing child abuse material, relating to allegations involving eight victims at a Point Cook centre. Information Hotline: 1800 791 241