A Gold Coast nurse has been charged over a series of alleged offences involving six teenage girls.<\/p>\n
Detectives from the Gold Coast Child Protection and Investigation Unit allege the 58-year-old used his position to offend against the victims between November 2020 and May 2024.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night, police arrested and charged the Robina man with six counts of stalking, two counts of indecent treatment of a child, and one count each of sexual assault, abuse of office, possessing child exploitation material, and creating child exploitation material.<\/p>\n
The man was refused bail and is due to appear in Southport Magistrates Court today.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson has said in a statement Gold Coast Health is aware of the “concerning” allegations involving a staff member.<\/p>\n
“Immediate measures were taken, including contacting Queensland Police Service (QPS) and removing the employee from the workplace, when this was brought to our attention,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
“We understand the member of staff has now been charged by QPS.<\/p>\n
“As a values-led organisation, staff and patient safety is of the utmost importance to us, and we take these matters extremely seriously.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to cooperate with QPS as this matter progresses.<\/p>\n
“As the matter is now before the courts, it would be inappropriate to make any further comment.”<\/p>\n
Investigations are ongoing, with detectives appealing for anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gold Coast nurse has been charged over a series of alleged offences involving six teenage girls. Detectives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,10471],"class_list":["post-736938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-queensland-police-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736938","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=736938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}