Ex-MP paedophile Orkopoulos ‘worked on child protection laws’ in parliament police allege
Paedophile former Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos allegedly told police he understood the Child Protection Register rules because he had voted on the legislation in parliament.
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Paedophile former Labor MP Milton Orkopoulos allegedly told police he understood the Child Protection Register rules because he had voted on the legislation in parliament.
But the 62-year-old allegedly went on to breach his parole conditions and obligations under the act when he was released after more than a decade in jail for child abuse and drug offences, court documents reveal.
According to allegations in a police fact sheet, Orkopoulos attended Maroubra police station three days after he was released last December so he could be placed on the register, which monitors and controls child sex offenders.
Police officers told him that due to the nature of his offending they would show him no leniency if he ignored his obligations under the register, to which he replied: “No and nor should you, nor should you — I mean, I voted on the legislation, remember?”
However, only a month later Orkopoulos was charged by police over allegedly setting up an Instagram account to follow soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and not telling police within the required seven days.
Then last month he was arrested again at a Maroubra halfway house he was living at and charged with three counts of failing to comply with reporting restrictions over using another man’s phone that was connected to the internet to call his sister.
The documents state that under the register’s act Orkopoulos should have reported to police any details of a carriage service he used or intended to use. When police asked him why he hadn’t bought a phone without internet he said “I’ve already paid $400 for one”, according to the documents.
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He was arrested and denied bail.
The State Parole Authority then revoked Orkopoulos’s parole because he breached two conditions, namely that he “must not commit any offences” and “must comply with all conditions and requirements of the Child Protection Register”.
He is due to face Waverley Local Court tomorrow. The SPA is unlikely to make any decisions on his future before the criminal cases are finalised in court.