Now, I’m not about to go and call the Australian Labor Party the “Paedo Party”, but… every single politician convicted of child sex offences in Australian history has been a Labor politician. Just sayin’.
(Tasmanian MP Terry Martin is technically listed as an “independent”, but he was a long-standing Labor Party member until he crossed the floor in 2007.)
Maybe it’s something they put in the chardonnay and shiraz and Labor Party beanos. Whatever, the clock has been reset.
Disgraced former state MP Milton Orkopoulos has been found guilty of sexually abusing young boys and supplying them with drugs after a jury accepted he groomed his victims “like a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
Orkopoulos on Tuesday was found guilty of 26 charges after standing trial in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court over allegations that he sexually abused four boys in the Lake Macquarie region and on NSW’s Mid North Coast from 1993 to 2003.
Of course, he swears he din’t do nuffin’.
During his evidence before the court Orkopoulos denied sexually abusing any of the four men, describing their allegations as “fanciful”, “outrageously wrong” and a “lie” […]
The man also told the court he was forced to sign a statement retracting allegations made to police during a meeting at the house of Jill Hall, who was Okropoulos’ predecessor as the Member for Swansea.
Is this suggesting that Labor officials knew about the allegations, but tried to cover them up? Surely not.
Orkopoulos said he “didn’t instigate” the signing of anything and at that point his knowledge of the allegations was that he had “looked” at boy “funny”.
News.com.au
Orkopoulos is slightly less creative than Terry Martin, who blamed his predilection for banging a 12yo prostitute, pimped out by her mother, on dim lighting and prescription medication. There was plenty of light for him to film it all, funnily enough.
Martin’s lawyer, Peter Barker, told the court between January 2007 and October 2009 Martin paid for 162 sex workers on 506 occasions.
He said in 2008 Martin paid for a transexual and, a month later, a male prostitute as a result of his medication.
Mr Barker argued that had it not been for the drug, which made his client obsessive about sex, he would not have sought out the 12-year-girl at the centre of a child prostitution case.
ABC Australia
Martin also tried to argue that he was hard done by, because of all the men the girl’s mother whored her out to, he was the only one caught.
They make ‘em different in the Labor party.
Young Labour members in New Zealand would probably agree.
