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800 children to be tested for STIs as police investigate accused Melbourne childcare paedophile

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Additional 800 children to be tested for STIs as police investigate accused Melbourne childcare paedophile Joshua Dale Brown

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1d ago

Additional 800 children to be tested for STIs as police investigate accused Melbourne childcare paedophile

www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2025/jul/15/further-800-children-recommended-for-sti-testing-melbourne-childcare-centres-police-investigating-joshua-dale-brown-ntwnfb

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800?
Eight. Fucking. Hundred?
Ban me. I don't give a fuck. If someone abused anywhere near 800 children then they just need to die. We are infinitely better off without.
- this isn’t 800 children abused, he was in contact with that many
  they are telling them all to get checked just in case
  
  I just don’t understand how working at 27 childcare centers within eight years wasn’t a red flag…..
- It's 1200. 800 are new.
- I think that they mean they’re testing the entire population of kids they could have come in contact with and not that they actually came in contact with all of them. Better safe than sorry kinda thing.
- I am not a murderer, but I also don't believe that killing to protect innocents is murder.
23 childcare centers in 8.5 years. A new one every 4-5 months. That's insane.
"Earlier this month Victorian police revealed the 26-year-old childcare worker had been charged with more than 70 offences relating to eight alleged victims, aged between five months and two years old."
"Approximately 2,600 families with children who attended the centres were contacted, with 1,200 advised to undergo screening for sexually transmitted infections."
This piece of trash deserves a slow and painful death in a rotted jail cell. I work with kids, and I would completely loose it if I learnt that one of my colleagues had done anything remotely sexually inappropriate. I just don't understand how could they get away with it for so long! I just want to yell, and cry. I can't imagine what all those parents are going through right now...
- Death penalty should be given to these individuals. No need to rehabilitate. Thanks but we’re good without him.
This is the type of shit that makes me question my stance on the death penalty.
- Try to expand your stance then. When I mention I'm against the death penalty, I usually preface it with something like "there are absolutely people in the world that deserve to die and the world would be a better place with them gone". For me a lot of the problem comes from trusting the system which has gotten things horrifically wrong in the past. So you can acknowledge that someone actually guilty of certain crimes should die.
  
  I don't think there should be a death penalty, for pretty much the exact same reasons. You can't un-kill people as necromancy isn't a thing... yet. However I am not above getting angry and venting by writing a slightly edgy comment.
- Well, this guy is not going to last very long in prison.
  
  No one will complain when he is killed in prison. My only hope is that he gets tortured sufficiently before he dies.

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