00:00Even workers with a Working With Children check aren't guaranteed to be safe.
00:09I received a phone call from a detective with the Australian Federal Police informing
00:16me that a worker at the daycare centre that our daughter attended had been arrested for
00:24possession of child sex abuse material.
00:27And the reason we were being contacted was because he had photos of our daughter.
00:35Andrew Dierick, a Victorian childcare cook, had a Working With Children check until he was
00:41caught paying women overseas to abuse kids while he watched.
00:48He was convicted in 2022 and is serving four years and eight months.
00:55And did you have any interactions with him?
00:57I actually had a lot of interactions with him.
01:01Like he always fussed over her and she was a bit of a favourite kind of thing with him.
01:05And obviously all of that was like really chilling in retrospect.
01:11But if the federal police hadn't gotten in contact with us, like if there'd been no pictures of
01:17children from that centre on his phone in addition to the other horrible things, no one would have ever known.
01:23And the police said that they were confident nothing happened to your child?
01:27Yes.
01:29She's almost certainly someone that he was targeting and had a very specific interest in.
01:39Part of the argument in the court was that this developed in his later years.
01:45And one of the biggest myths that's out there about pedophiles is that somehow this is something
01:51that they catch when they're in their, you know, in their 30s or 40s.
01:55That just doesn't happen in human sexuality.
