Australia, September 27: A NURSE’S aide charged with molesting a primary aged schoolboy will face court in New South Wales next month.
The 40-year-old woman who has been sacked and now lives with family in the state’s north, faced court last month charged with five offences including aggravated sexual intercourse with the alleged victim, who is aged just 12.
It is alleged the incident took place late one night in the school grounds.
Police are understood to be continuing their investigation amid suspicions more boys at the school, which is in the state’s south, were the target of the woman’s alleged behaviour.
According to the school’s website the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was an assistant housemother at the primary school.
When The Daily Telegraph visited her home, the woman’s mother said her daughter had been employed at the school for “several years”.
Police arrested and charged the woman on August 18 this year with the alleged indecent and sexual assault of the boy.
“It will be alleged the boy, aged 12 at the time, was assaulted at various times within the grounds of a school between January and April this year,” a police spokeswoman said.
The woman was subsequently charged with five offences including two counts of incite person under 16 years to commit an act of indecency, commit act of indecency with a person under 16 years, aggravated sexual intercourse with person between 10 and 16 years of age, and aggravated indecency with victim under 16 and under the authority of the offender.
The youngster’s identity cannot be revealed, but court papers revealed the incidents were alleged to have occurred on February 1, late at night.
The woman was granted strict conditional bail and will face court next month.
Police said their investigation was ongoing, and consideration was being given to further charges relating to other young boys.
—Agencies