Sydney childcare worker granted bail after child assault charges

A Sydney childcare worker has been released on bail after being charged with allegedly slapping two boys and assaulting two other minors.

Jayendra Shahi is accused of a "brutal assault" of children while working in a centre in the city's south-west.

A parent of one of the alleged victims told the ABC it was "distressing" to learn of what happened to the child.

A childcare worker has been granted bail after being charged with allegedly assaulting two further children at a centre in Sydney's south-west.

Police initially arrested 24-year-old Jayendra Shahi on April 25 and charged him with two counts of common assault after receiving reports he had allegedly assaulted two boys, aged three and four, at the centre in Panania.

Police said they were told the worker allegedly slapped the boys in the face.

After being granted bail for those charges, he was arrested a second time on Monday afternoon after further investigations uncovered a second incident in which police allege he assaulted two girls aged three and four.

He appeared in Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday, where his lawyer, James Moore, applied for bail under similar conditions to his previous charges.

That was opposed by the police prosecutor, but ultimately granted by Judge George Breton.

He said the charges were serious, but it was unlikely he would harm children again.

"The matters … indicate quite a brutal assault on two young children at a childcare centre where they should be protected," Judge Breton told the court.

Mr Shahi was ordered to report weekly to Bankstown Police Station, attend psychological and mental health programs, and not enter the childcare facility.

'You feel you've failed'

Outside the court, a mother of one of the alleged victims spoke on the condition of anonymity.

"I think, as any parent … your instinct is that you want to protect your child, and then to have somebody else describe an interaction between your child and another adult as a brutal assault it's completely heartbreaking," she said.

"It is distressing. You feel you've failed."

She said she was called into the centre to review CCTV vision of an incident involving her child, another child and Mr Shahi.

She and her partner reported the issue to police, not the centre itself.

"After going through months of looking at news reports of daycare centres that are being shut down for alleged incidents, and then it hits you like a shockwave that this is your child who's become this statistic,"

She said.