Officials urge health screening for 1,200 children after Australian child care worker charged with rape, abuse
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About 1,200 families have been urged by police in Australia to have their children tested for infectious diseases after a child care worker in Melbourne was charged with multiple sexual assault offenses againgst eight children.
Joshua Brown, 26, was charged with more than 70 offenses, including child rape and attempted rape and possession of child sexual abuse material, the Victoria Police said in a statement Tuesday.
"The most important thing for our investigators was that we needed to identify the victims involved," Acting Commander Janet Stevenson of the Victoria Police's Crime Command said Tuesday. "These are some of the most vulnerable members of our community and the conversations police have had to have with their families were no doubt life changing in the worst possible way."
