Former Greek Australian doctor faces dozens of rape and sexual assault charges

A erstwhile Greek Australian doc successful Brisbane has been charged with 148 offences relating to alleged rape and intersexual battle spanning much than a decade.

The 74-year-old man, identified arsenic Stellios “Stan” Theodoros, is expected to look earlier the Brisbane Magistrates Court connected 23 June.

According to the ABC, Queensland Police laid 94 charges relating to rape and 54 relating to intersexual battle pursuing an extended probe conducted by the Upper Mount Gravatt Criminal Investigation Branch.

Police allege that betwixt the aboriginal 2000s and 2015, the erstwhile GP sexually assaulted 15 women aged from their precocious teens to astir 40 years aged while working astatine a aesculapian session successful Tarragindi.

Investigators launched Operation Xray Cariyna successful August past year aft aggregate women came guardant with complaints.

Theodoros, a nonmigratory of Highgate Hill, worked astatine the Wellers Hill Medical Centre until his status successful 2021. Last year, helium was besides removed arsenic a institution manager associated with the practice.

Detective Senior Sergeant Denis Silk from the Upper Mount Gravatt Criminal Investigation Branch urged anyone with accusation to interaction constabulary straight oregon supply accusation anonymously done Crime Stoppers.

One erstwhile diligent who made a ailment told the ABC the charges were “long overdue”.

“It’s a immense relief. This is simply a large milestone and it needed to beryllium made nationalist that charges had been laid,” she said.

Police confirmed investigations stay ongoing.

The charges travel a erstwhile ruling that indefinitely barred the erstwhile doc from reapplying for aesculapian registration.

In earlier proceedings, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) recovered the retired Brisbane doc had engaged successful a repeated signifier of inappropriate behaviour involving astatine slightest 7 women implicit a fig of years.

The tribunal concluded helium conducted excessive and medically unjustified Pap smears, bosom examinations and vaginal examinations without objective necessity.

QCAT stated the behaviour went “well beyond” accepted objective signifier and described it arsenic being “objectively astatine the highest extremity of the standard of misconduct” for a practitioner of his experience.

The tribunal besides recovered galore of the examinations lacked aesculapian justification and appeared to beryllium motivated by “sexual gratification”.