<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Disturbing new details have emerged of red flag incidents involving accused child abuser Joshua Dale Brown.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It's been revealed he was previously investigated by one centre for forcibly grabbing the arms and legs of children but was allowed to continue working at other facilities.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The incidents were not escalated by the independent children's commissioner, allowing the now accused paedophile to work at 10 more childcare centres. </span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/wantirna-south-second-person-dies-after-pedestrians-struck-by-car/a81ab8c6-eeb1-4a2c-ae80-309454915bd9"><strong><span>Grandfather, 60, dies days after wife after they were struck by car</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brown is charged with 70 offences relating to eight victims. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The public was initially told the childcare worker was not known to Victoria Police.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But his former employer, G8 Education, has admitted two incidents had been reported to police, though Brown's Working with Children's Check was never reviewed.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/childcare-joshua-dale-brown-victoria-previously-investigated/813d08c4-c204-4dfb-832f-e243e34932f6" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Minister Vicki Ward said it was "absolutely something" the government was investigating to see if system changes needed to be made.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The first investigation in 2023 was after allegations "Mr Brown aggressively picked up and put down ... a child in his care by not supporting that child while they were upset".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The incident was reported by three colleagues.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The claim was proven and the educator was given a formal written warning and took three months leave.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/usa-california-farmworker-jaime-alanis-fell-from-roof-chaotic-ice-raid-dies/5a98515b-db82-427c-9723-e1e1c8da81e8"><strong><span>California farmworker who fell from roof during chaotic ICE raid dies</span></strong></a><strong></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A second investigation was sparked in January last year after a parent and staff complained Brown allegedly "forcibly grabbed the arm of one child, the leg of another" and "forcibly pulled" off their shoe.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was immediately suspended and eventually resigned before the claims could be substantiated.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Despite the incidents being reported to Victoria Police, the Department of Education and the Commission for Children, Brown's Working with Children check was not reviewed.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/talisman-sabre-military-exercises-australia-china-monitoring/5932c502-9125-4cb6-af94-09551067b767"><strong><span>China expected to spy on major Australian military exercises</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We have a review that is under way right now. We are waiting for those recommendations," Ward said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They'll be handed down next month.</span></div></div>