Australian daycare worker charged with assaulting child – leaving the boy with a laceration on his head
A young childcare worker has been charged with assaulting a child in central-west NSW.
Police launched an investigation on August 8 following reports that a four-year-old boy was assaulted by a worker at a Ingersole Drive childcare centre in Kelso.
Police alleged that a female staff member, 24, forced the boy onto a bed the previous day.
The boy’s head struck the edge of the bed during the alleged incident, which resulted in a 2cm laceration.
Medical attention was immediately sought for the child.
Following a month-long investigation, the woman was arrested at a home in Kelso on Tuesday afternoon.
She was taken to Bathurst Police Station and charged with reckless wounding.
The woman was bailed to appear in Bathurst Local Court on October 29.
A female childcare worker has been accused of assaulting a four-year-old boy (stock image)
The childcare sector and governments at all levels are grappling with a crisis of confidence following horrifying allegations of abuse.
Melbourne childcare worker Joshua Dale Brown was charged with sexually abusing eight children under the age of two.
A slew of separate accusations have since been made against childcare workers in other states, fuelling calls for action.
The latest alleged incident in NSW comes just days after a childcare worker accused of using children to create abuse images faced court for the first time.
The Sydney father-of-two appeared in Parramatta Local Court last Friday, where his identity and details of his business were suppressed by court order.
He is alleged to have hoarded 1.4million child abuse images on his electronic devices, including 500,000 ‘unique images’.
Three of the man’s seven charges of using a child under 14 years to make child abuse material have been classed as aggravated.
He also faces one count of possessing child abuse material on a data-use carriage service.
The man remains in custody and will reappear in court in November.
