Officials urge a health examination of 1,200 children after two years, caring for Australian children accused of rape and abuse

In Australia, the police urged about 1,200 families to test their children due to infectious diseases after accusing the childcare worker in Melbourne of multiple sexual assaults against eight children.

Victoria Police said in a statement Tuesday.

“The most important thing for the investigators is that we need to determine the relevant victims,” ​​said Acting Commander Janet Stephenson of the Victoria Police Crime on Tuesday. “These are some of our most vulnerable members, and the talks that the police had to hold with their families have no doubt that life changed in the worst possible way.”

The accusations relate to eight alleged victims from a child care center in the Buint Cook suburb of Melbourne, between April 2022 and January 2023, but the authorities are afraid that there will be more children who have been affected. Brown worked in more than 20 children’s care centers in the region between 2017 and arrested him in May 2025, according to the police.

Investigators, as a “priority”, achieve evidence of more broken crimes by Brown during his period in another child care center in the Essendon suburb of Melbourne.

In total, about 2,600 families were contacted in the two institutions while employing Brown, as the authorities recommend that 1,200 children be tested for certain diseases because of the “alleged violation method”.

“As a precaution, we recommend that some children be tested by infectious diseases due to the risk of possible exposure in that period,” said Christian McGrath, President of Victoria, Christian McGrath. press conference Tuesday. “We believe this is low risk, but we want to provide this to provide a guarantee for parents about the health of their children and their well -being.”

McGRath did not specify the diseases that the Ministry of Health recommended to test, but said it could be treated with antibiotics.

Police said they believed that Brown had been acting alone, and only inside Victoria. He had a valid certificate to work with children in the state, and he was not known to the police before his arrest in May, after the investigators discovered that he had materials to abuse children.

Prime Minister in Victoria, Prime Minister Jacinta Alan, said in a statement Tuesday that she “fell ill from these allegations of abuse. It is a shock and painful.”

“My heart breaks these families who live the worst nightmare for all parents,” she added. “As a parent, I can only imagine unbearable pain and the distress that affected families feel.”

Brown, who has been detained since May and has not yet entered into charges, is scheduled to be represented in Melbourne’s Magistrate on September 15.