Fresh details emerge of accused Melbourne child rapist's dating history seeking threesomes and casual sex prior to arrest
Michael Simon Wilson, 36, was arrested on Wednesday facing 45 charges including rape, bestiality and possession of child abuse material.
Wilson's dating history prior to his arrest has now come to light, with the alleged child rapist previously seen active on an Australian casual sex website, seeking sexual encounters with either male-female couples or female-female couples.
Wilson's profile on FlingFinder was under the pseudonym Viper15233 where he posted that he was ''just out of (a) long relationship'' and ''looking to get back out there'', according to the Daily Mail.
Victoria Police said Wilson's charges relate to the alleged sexual assault of a teenage boy in Hoppers Crossing on August 16.
It is during the investigation of Wilson's child sex offences police discovered evidence of a separate string of sexual crimes against children at a childcare centre in Point Cook.
Accused childcare rapist, Joshua Dale Brown, 26, was arrested on May 12 facing more than 70 child sex offences against eight victims, who were in his care at the Creative Garden Early Learning Centre in Point Cook between April 2022 and January 2023.
Brown's alleged list of offences include sexual penetration of a child under 12, producing and transmitting child abuse material, and recklessly contaminating goods to cause alarm or anxiety.
It has been alleged Brown used bodily fluids to tamper with the children's food in his care.
The 26-year-old's identity was legally supressed until Tuesday when the horror was unleashed on the public.
The revelation triggered an emergency response from Victoria Police urging families of more than 1,200 potentially affected children to have their kids tested "for infectious diseases".
The Victorian Department of Health has also activated a public health response, urging parents to have their children screened for infectious diseases, depending on their potential exposure during the period of alleged offending.
Brown and Wilson are reportedly known to each other, but Wilson's charges are not related to any childcare centre and involve different alleged victims.
Brown has remained in custody since his arrest in May.
Both Wilson and Brown are due to face Melbourne Magistrates' Court on September 15.
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