{"id":67031,"date":"2025-07-16T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67031\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:02:11","slug":"alleged-melbourne-childcare-abuser-worked-at-additional-centre-in-point-cook-operator-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67031\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Melbourne childcare abuser worked at additional centre in Point Cook, operator says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A childcare provider has told parents alleged abuser Joshua Dale Brown worked at an additional centre in Melbourne&#8217;s south-west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Tuesday,<a class=\"Link_link__kR0xA Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-07-15\/childcare-worker-joshua-brown-expanded-list\/105532544\" data-component=\"Link\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/article\/105532544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> police revealed they had identified an extra four centres where Mr Brown had worked in recent years<\/a>, weeks after laying 70 charges against him relating to eight alleged victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On the same day, childcare provider G8 Education informed parents that Mr Brown had also worked at the World of Learning in Point Cook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, the company said he only worked there for one day: August 24, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Victoria Police today confirmed the date and location, and said agencies were in the process of contacting families whose children were at the centre at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual assault\u00a0support lines:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU\">\n<li><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1800respect.org.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1800 Respect National Helpline<\/a>: 1800 737 732<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeline.org.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifeline<\/a> (24-hour crisis line): 131 114<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/fullstop.org.au\/get-help\/our-services\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Stop Australia<\/a>: 1800 385 578<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bravehearts.org.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bravehearts<\/a>: counselling and support for survivors of child sexual abuse: 1800\u00a0272\u00a0831<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.childwise.org.au\/\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Child Wise<\/a>: counselling provider: 1800\u00a0991\u00a0099<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Earlier, G8 Education CEO Pejman Okhovat wrote to parents that: &#8220;In the interest of transparency, it was important we inform you of this information as soon as we could and apologise that we were unable to provide it earlier&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;In light of this new information about Mr Brown&#8217;s presence at World of Learning Point Cook, the Victorian government and Victoria Police may contact you with further information or recommendations and we want to prepare you for that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t have any information from any government authorities to indicate when or how this might occur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">On Wednesday afternoon, Victoria Police also corrected a date regarding the Kids Academy in Melton. It said Mr Brown worked there on September 12 last year, rather than September 2 as previously stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He also worked there on September 16 last year, as previously listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The new Point Cook site and updated Melton childcare centre date have been added to <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vic.gov.au\/childcare-centres-investigation\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an official list being maintained by the state government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police now believe Mr Brown worked at 24 childcare centres between January 2017 and May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A childcare provider has told parents alleged abuser Joshua Dale Brown worked at an additional centre in Melbourne&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47447,4740,25090,47446,5022,25093,50,25091,7207],"class_list":{"0":"post-67031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alleged-abuse","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-childcare","11":"tag-g8-childcare","12":"tag-investigation","13":"tag-joshua-dale-brown","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-point-cook","16":"tag-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114862577701301070","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}