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In a chilling development, Joshua Dale Brown from Melbourne is now confronting a staggering 83 additional charges following the discovery of four new alleged victims. This escalation brings the 27-year-old’s total charges to 156, involving 12 alleged child victims.
Victoria Police disclosed that these new charges were filed this morning, encompassing offenses against both the newly identified four children and the initial eight. The list of charges is harrowing, including 23 counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material, eight counts of producing child abuse material via a carriage service, eight counts of sexually assaulting a child under 16, and six counts of penetrating a child under 12.
In addition to these grim accusations, Brown faces charges unrelated to the childcare allegations, which include 12 counts of bestiality.
The offences include 23 counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material, eight counts of producing child abuse material for use through a carriage service, eight counts of sexual assault of a child under 16, and six counts of penetration of a child under 12.
He was also charged with unrelated matters, including 12 counts of bestiality.
The four new children had attended the Nino Early Learning Adventures in Point Cook on March 26 in 2019, Only About Children in Williamstown on December 1 in 2020 and February 22 in 2021 and Aussie Kindies Early Learning Centre in Keilor between February 3 and 11 this year.
Their families have been notified and are receiving support services.
Brown was initally charged with more than 70 offences relating to the alleged abuse of eight children at Creative Gardens Early Learning Centre in Point Cook in May.
The charges triggered a mass health response that saw thousands of children get tested for sexually transmitted infections, with Brown having worked at 23 known childcare centres between January 2017 and May 2025.
Health officials have confirmed that no children need to be tested again, as they have not identified any new childcare centres he had worked at.
Detectives have continued investigating him after a magistrate granted them more time to gather evidence and pushed back the next court hearing to February 10.
The investigation remains active and ongoing.
Anyone with information is urged to come forward.
Brown’s alleged crimes have sparked statewide and national child safety and industry reforms.
Total list of Joshua Dale Brown’s 83 new charges:
- Six counts of penetration of a child under 12
- Eight counts of producing child abuse material for use through a carriage service
- Twenty-three counts of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material
- Seven counts of using a carriage service to solicit child abuse material
- Seven counts of using a carriage service to cause child abuse material to be transmitted to self
- Two counts of sexual activity in the presence of a child under 16
- Eight counts of sexual assault of a child under 16
- Two counts of attempted sexual penetration of a child under 12
- Two counts of recklessly causing injury
- Two counts of common law assault
- Twelve counts of bestiality (these are part of a separate investigation and are unrelated to childcare centres)
- Reckless conduct endangering serious injury
- Encouraging a child under the age of 16 to engage in sexual activity
- Two counts of possessing a drug of dependence
