By Caroline Schelle Noel Towell Sherryn Groch
The work history of accused Melbourne paedophile Joshua Dale Brown has widened after errors emerged with the childcare worker’s employment dates supplied to families and the public.
Health authorities are expected to update official notifications of the dates Brown worked at certain centres on Thursday.
Parents at Essendon Papilio Early Learning in Melbourne’s north were scrambling for answers earlier this week after authorities advised them that Brown began working at the centre on February 17 and remained there until just days before his arrest on child sex abuse charges in May.
But this masthead has obtained evidence of Brown working at the daycare on December 13, more than two months before the date officially advised, and parents have said they recalled the alleged offender caring for children at Papilio as early as August.