Male childcare worker employed by the same company as accused paedophile Joshua Brown charged with child sex offences
- An Affinity Education employee charged with child abuse
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A male childcare worker employed by the same company as accused paedophile Joshua Brown has been hit with a series of child sex abuse charges.
The Affinity Education employee has been charged with nine counts of intentionally sexually touching a child under 10 years of age and one count of rape.
It remains unclear if all the charges relate to one or multiple victims.
Further details cannot be revealed for legal reasons.
The man has pleaded not guilty to the charges and remains out on bail.
He is due to face court on July 23 for a hearing.
It comes after three female childcare workers were sacked following an investigation into 'inappropriate' nappy rash images of children at an Adelaide daycare.
The staff members were fired from the Little Shining Stars Early Learning Centre in Klemzig following an investigation by the Education Standards Board (ESB).
A male childcare worker employed by the same company as accused paedophile Joshua Brown has been charged with a series of child sex offences (stock image)
Brown's charges relate to eight alleged victims who attended Creative Gardens Early Learning Centre Point Cook (pictured)
The ESB received a complaint of inappropriate discipline at the centre and three female workers were fired after an officer attended the site.
Minor injuries had been photographed and the pictures stored on physical devices, the investigation discovered, reported The Adelaide Advertiser.
These storage devices were found to have contained what investigators deemed to be inappropriate photos of the children.
Although staff at the centre claimed to have only stored the photos for the purposes of documenting the injuries, the ESB seized the devices.
Families of the children who were pictured have been notified about the photos and the fact they were stored on-site at the facility in the city's northeast suburbs.
Last week, Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Dale Brown was arrested and charged with more than 70 child abuse offences against eight alleged victims.
The 26-year-old worked at 20 childcare centres around Melbourne between 2017 and 2025, some owned by Affinity Education.
Brown's alleged victims are aged between five months and two-years-old, and were in the care of Creative Garden Early Learning Centre Point Cook between April 2022 and January 2023.
Childcare worker Joshua Brown, 26, was employed at 20 childcare centres around Melbourne between 2017 and 2025, some owned by Affinity Education
He was not known to police prior to his arrest and held a Working With Childrens Check which has since been revoked.
As a precaution, authorities urged the parents of 1,200 children to have them tested for infectious diseases.
Brown is due to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court on September 15.
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