Four new centres linked to Victoria childcare abuse case

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Victoria Police have announced a further 800 children will need to be tested for possible infectious diseases after four more daycare centres have been added to the list of places where alleged paedophile Joshua Brown worked in the state.

Here’s what you need to know.

Charges

Childcare worker Joshua Brown, 26, was arrested on 12 May. In June, Victoria Police announced he had been charged with 70 offences, including child rape and producing child abuse material.

Police said the victims were aged between five months and two-years-old at the time of the alleged offences.

The offences relate to eight victims at a childcare centre in Point Cook in Melbourne between April 2022 and January 2023.

New information

Initially, Victoria Police said Brown had worked at 20 childcare centres between 2017 and 2025.

On Tuesday, it announced that four new childcare services have been identified as places where Brown worked between August 2024 and February this year. One centre from the initial list has been removed, bringing the total places where Brown worked to 23.

Police said incorrect information obtained in the early stages of the investigation, and the lack of centralised records for childcare services in the state, led to the corrections.

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