Disgraced Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos, 62, is accused of repeatedly raping a boy, 11, in the 1990s
- The former Lake Macquarie Councillor allegedly raped the boy several times
- Orkopoulos, 62, appeared briefly in Newcastle Local Court on Tuesday
- The former Lake Macquarie Councillor has been charged with 15 offences
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.
Orkopoulos, 62, appeared briefly in Newcastle Local Court on Tuesday via audio-visual link from Sydney's Long Bay prison.
He is accused of sexually abusing two boys more than two decades ago while serving as a Lake Macquarie Councillor.
Orkopoulos, wearing glasses and prison greens, said nothing during the brief hearing and did not apply for bail, which was formally refused.
Disgraced former NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos (right) has appeared in court after being accused of sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s
He is accused of sexually abusing two boys in the 1990s while serving as a Lake Macquarie Councillor
Orkopoulos has been charged with 15 offences including aggravated indecent assault with a person under 16 years of age, committing an act of indecency with a person under 16 years, aggravated sexual assault and causing a child aged under 14 to participate in child prostitution.
All but two of the charges relate to one of the alleged victims.
Orkopoulos raped the 11-year-old boy three times at Caves Beach and another time at Swansea in December 1998, court documents allege.
He is also facing two counts of aggravated indecent assault against another boy at Seal Rocks on the NSW Mid-North Coast.
He spent 11-and-a-half years in jail after he was convicted of 30 child sex, drug and child pornography offences between 1995 and 2006.
Orkopoulos was granted parole in December 2019.
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He was arrested in January for allegedly setting up an Instagram account and not telling police within the required seven days.
He had his parole revoked in February after Corrective Services NSW officers told police he used the mobile phone of a fellow resident at the Malabar halfway house where he lives in Sydney's southeast.
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.
Magistrate John Chicken adjourned the case to August 20 when the police brief of evidence against Orkopoulos was expected to be complete.
Mr Chicken ordered authorities to assess Orkopoulos for mental health issues.
Police allege the former NSW Labor MP sexually and indecently assaulted two boys known to him on separate occasions in the 1990s at locations in Lake Macquarie and on the NSW mid-north coast
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