Disgraced former NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos has appeared in court after being accused of raping an 11-year-old boy four times in the 1990s. He is accused of sexually abusing two boys more than two decades ago while serving as a Lake Macquarie Councillor. Orkopoulos raped the 11-year-old boy three times at Caves Beach and another time at Swansea in December 1998, court documents allege. Defence lawyer Omar Juweinat told the court Orkopoulos had since his arrest on Monday been moved into the prison's maximum security area. Orkopoulos had been held in the prison's less secure remand section before Lake Macquarie detectives charged him with fresh child abuse offences.

Source: Daily Mail June 16, 2020 05:37 UTC