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Alleged Melbourne paedophile Joshua Dale Brown worked at an additional daycare centre that has not been listed by authorities online, bringing the total centres he worked at to 24.
It comes after four more childcare centres were revealed on Tuesday, broadening the scope of the police investigation.
Accused paedophile Joshua Dale Brown.
Childcare giant G8 contacted parents on Tuesday, advising them that the 26-year-old worked at World of Learning in Point Cook, in Melbourne’s west, on August 24, 2023.
“Based on our review of our records, there are no records of Mr Brown working at World of Learning Point Cook on any other day. This information has been provided to Victoria Police,” G8 chief executive Pejman Okhovat said in the email to parents.
The company also apologised for not providing the information sooner.
“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.
“In light of this new information about Mr Brown’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. We don’t have any information from any Government authorities to indicate when or how this might occur.”
Neither the Victorian government nor Victoria Police have added World of Learning to their official list of Brown’s workplaces on their websites.
G8, the Department of Health and Victoria Police were contacted for comment.
On Tuesday, police noted that the information released was the “most accurate and up-to-date record available”, but warned further updates to the alleged paedophile’s employment history were likely.
The World of Learning childcare centre at Point Cook.
“This has been extremely complex due to childcare approved providers not having centralised records, requiring detectives to execute search warrants to obtain handwritten records, shift rosters and other critical information,” Victoria Police Acting Commander Janet Stevenson said.
The lack of records also meant detectives from the sexual crime squad had to assess more than 270 Crimestoppers reports and interview witnesses to confirm when and where Brown worked over his eight years in childcare.
Brown was charged in May with 70 offences related to child sexual abuse, including sexual penetration, producing child abuse material, and recklessly contaminating goods to cause alarm or anxiety. Brown had no criminal history and possessed a valid Working With Children Check. The case was only made public by police and authorities on July 1.
The Health Department subsequently recommended that more than 1300 children be tested for STIs as a precaution.
On Tuesday, another 800 children were recommended to undergo STI tests after the four other centres were revealed.
These centres were the Kids Academy Waratah Estate in Mickleham on August 29, 2024; Milestones Early Learning in Tarneit on September 10 and 13, 2024; Milestones Early Learning in Braybrook on December 4 and 6, 2024; and Milestones Early Learning in Greensborough on December 5, 2024, January 31, 2025 and February 27, 2025.
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