A Sydney childcare worker, Jayendra Shahi, has been released on bail after being charged with assaulting four children at a childcare centre in the city's south-west. He faces charges of common assault and allegations of a brutal assault on the children.
ABC News: Sean Tarek GoodwinA Sydney childcare worker has been released on bail after being charged with allegedly slapping two boys and assaulting two other minors.
Jayendra Shahi is accused of a "brutal assault" of children while working in a centre in the city's south-west. A parent of one of the alleged victims told the ABC it was "distressing" to learn of what happened to the child. Share article A childcare worker has been granted bail after being charged with allegedly assaulting two further children at a centre in Sydney's south-west.
Police initially arrested 24-year-old Jayendra Shahi on April 25 and charged him with two counts of common assault after receiving reports he had allegedly assaulted two boys, aged three and four, at the centre in Panania. After being granted bail for those charges, he was arrested a second time on Monday afternoon after further investigations uncovered a second incident in which police allege he assaulted two girls aged three and four.
ABC News: Sean Tarek GoodwinHe appeared in Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday, where his lawyer, James Moore, applied for bail under similar conditions to his previous charges. He said the charges were serious, but it was unlikely he would harm children again.
"The matters … indicate quite a brutal assault on two young children at a childcare centre where they should be protected," Judge Breton told the court. Mr Shahi was ordered to report weekly to Bankstown Police Station, attend psychological and mental health programs, and not enter the childcare facility. Outside the court, a mother of one of the alleged victims spoke on the condition of anonymity.
"I think, as any parent … your instinct is that you want to protect your child, and then to have somebody else describe an interaction between your child and another adult as a brutal assault it's completely heartbreaking," she said. She said she was called into the centre to review CCTV vision of an incident involving her child, another child and Mr Shahi.
"After going through months of looking at news reports of daycare centres that are being shut down for alleged incidents, and then it hits you like a shockwave that this is your child who's become this statistic," she said.
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