{"id":244488,"date":"2025-07-01T11:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=244488"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:19:36","slug":"26-year-old-charged-over-childcare-centre-sexual-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=244488","title":{"rendered":"26-year-old charged over childcare centre sexual assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police have launched a full-scale investigation into alleged sexual assaults at a Melbourne child care centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A worker at the centre in Point Cook has since been charged with over 70 offences, including child rape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear the latest update from Madelaine Burke&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"26-year-old charged over childcare centre sexual assaults\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-mornings\/26-year-old-charged-over-childcare-centre-sexual-assaults\/embed#?secret=AoJX2Ii3Gl\" data-secret=\"AoJX2Ii3Gl\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>3AW<\/em>&nbsp;police reporter Madelaine Burke said Victoria Police&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vic.gov.au\/childcare-centres-investigation\">described the investigation<\/a>&nbsp;into the 26-year-old alleged offender as \u201cincredibly distressing\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police are investigating several sexual assaults linked to an employee who worked at a number of childcare centres across Melbourne.<br>26-year-old Point Cook man Joshua Brown has been charged with over with over 70 offences, relating to eight victims.<br>It has been established that\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Madelaine Burke (@Madelaine_Burke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Madelaine_Burke\/status\/1939815675050229976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt really is horrific,\u201d she told Tom Elliott.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A worker at the centre in Point Cook has since been charged with over 70 offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":188463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,921],"tags":[8054,993,8723,8],"class_list":["post-244488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crime","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-serious-crime","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244492,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244488\/revisions\/244492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}