Childcare giant Affinity Education withheld for weeks crucial information about the safety of two children from sex crime detectives investigating accused paedophile Joshua Brown.

The Essendon daycare centre, where police suspect the childcare worker committed further abuse, ignored a report of inappropriate touching that was made just weeks after Brown was first charged.

On June 12, parents raised the alarm over the safety of their child and another toddler being cared for at Papilio Early Learning in Essendon after their two-year-old daughter disclosed another child had inappropriately touched them.

Private equity-owned Affinity, one of the largest childcare chains in Australia, repeatedly blocked the family’s months-long fight for answers, including their in-house counsel refusin

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