Childcare worker's 'monstrous' assaults on kids captured on CCTV

Key points

• A childcare worker, Edwina Ling, has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to 80 counts of common assault and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm. The assaults took place at a childcare centre in Injinoo, on Cape York, over three days in late August and early September 2024.
• CCTV footage captured the attacks, and one 13-month-old boy was assaulted 55 times. The centre operated outside the National Quality Framework.
• Parents want accountability to extend to the organisation that ran the centre and to regulators.