00:00This man we'll call Peter is facing 11 serious allegations under Victoria's Reportable Conduct Scheme.
00:12The Children's Commissioner alleges Peter committed sexual offences, sexual misconduct and physical violence
00:19towards eight little girls at this Good Start Centre in Mount Helen in 2023 and 2024.
00:25It's one of nine childcare centres Peter worked at in Ballarat.
00:31Last month the ABC revealed two toddlers told their parents Peter had hurt them while changing their nappies.
00:37She said that this person always wanted to change her nappies and that when they did last time
00:45that they held her down by her shoulders and assaulted her.
00:51Peter is also accused of kissing a child on the lips, blowing raspberries near a child's genitals
00:57and lying down with children who were crawling over his groin.
01:01He denies most of it.
01:03The police found nothing.
01:04Did they find nothing or did they find that it was your word against the word of two very small children?
01:10They found insufficient evidence. I'm not sure what that means in their language.
01:13But they found nothing to implicate that I had done these things.
01:18If I had, I would have been charged. I would have been jailed.
01:21And I would have expected that had I done something.
01:25Victoria Police said there was insufficient evidence to lay charges.
01:30This criminologist who researches child sexual abuse says that's very common.
01:34In the absence of very clear medical evidence, or frankly in the absence of photographic evidence,
01:41these are cases that just often don't proceed.
01:44Peter did admit to the ABC to one sexual misconduct allegation,
01:48hugging a school-aged sibling against her will.
01:51Yes, that one was a misunderstanding on my part.
01:53The Victorian Education Department banned Peter from working in education in December 2024
01:59because it considered him an unacceptable risk to children.
02:03But Peter didn't get the paperwork for four months because it was sent to the wrong email address.
02:09His employer Goodstart didn't know either
02:11and told the ABC that process did not support child safety.
02:16This Ballarat couple says Goodstart didn't do enough to protect children.
02:21Their daughter attended the Delacombe Goodstart,
02:24where Peter worked after complaints were first made at the Mount Helen Centre.
02:29There's no evidence that Metcalfe's daughter was an alleged victim.
02:33But these parents are concerned she was put at risk.
02:36They're part of a group preparing legal action against Goodstart.
02:39If they had done what they were supposed to do, this man wouldn't have been with my daughter.
02:44The father who first complained about Peter at Goodstart Mount Helen says police never contacted him.
02:50They're not going to interview everyone and there's a lot of allegations there.
02:54I think there needs to be more of an inquiry into it, in my opinion.
02:57No, I don't believe him at all.
02:58I think he's a narcissistic predator.
03:00He understands the system and thinks he's gotten away with it.
03:04Peter is appealing against the Education Department ban
03:07and a ban on his working with children check.
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