{"id":237278,"date":"2025-10-24T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237278\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:09:12","slug":"childcare-workers-charged-with-allegedly-assaulting-toddler-in-sydneys-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/237278\/","title":{"rendered":"Childcare workers charged with allegedly assaulting toddler in Sydney&#8217;s west"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two childcare workers have been charged with allegedly assaulting a toddler multiple times at a Doonside centre in Sydney&#8217;s west earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a report on Monday detailing allegations that two workers at Little Zak&#8217;s in Doonside had repeatedly assaulted a young child at the Doonside centre on October 13.<\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old woman and a 54-year-old woman were arrested and charged yesterday following an investigation by officers from Blacktown Police Area Command.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/395f7623-cb8a-49eb-be93-f534b33e1f98.jpeg\"   alt=\"A sign of Little Zak's Academy, a childcare centre in Doonside. \"\/>The pair have since been terminated.  (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>They have each been charged with five counts of common assault.<\/p>\n<p>Both women have been terminated by the childcare centre. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply sorry about what is alleged to have happened to a child in our care,&#8221; Little Zak&#8217;s said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The provider said that the two women were new to the centre, and that both had valid Working with Children Checks and no criminal records.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the toddler was thrown across the room and flicked.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/7279531c-7a7b-4b58-bdc9-415895274b23.jpeg\"   alt=\"A Sydney childcare worker has been charged with allegedly assaulting a toddler.\"\/>Two Sydney childcare workesr have been charged with allegedly assaulting a toddler. (iStock)<\/p>\n<p>The two women are set to appear before Blacktown Local Court on December 4.<\/p>\n<p>The operator says it will review the level of care at its Doonside centre. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two childcare workers have been charged with allegedly assaulting a toddler multiple times at a Doonside centre in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-237278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}