By The Age’s View
The Health Department contacted about 2600 families, parents, children and carers of children following the allegations, and recommended about 1200 children undergo testing for infectious diseases.
These latest allegations come after shocking cases of abuse by childcare workers of infants in their care were revealed in Queensland and NSW.
Last year, former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith was sentenced to life in prison for the 鈥渄epraved鈥 sexual abuse of 73 children under his care over almost 20 years in Queensland and Italy. In NSW, a childcare worker was charged last year with abusing eight children at a regional daycare centre.
Then in January this year, Quoc Phu Tong, 35, pleaded guilty to touching a young boy on the groin and bottom over the boy鈥檚 clothes in September last year at a daycare centre on Sydney鈥檚 northern beaches. All of these cases have raised serious questions for parents around Australia desperately worried about the safety of their children.