A JURY was read a lurid, graphic short story about a man and a teenager and a teenager and a boy engaging in multiple sex acts at a suburban home at the trial of Milton Orkopoulos yesterday.
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Newcastle District Court heard the story, which took more than an hour to read, was a 19-page document found between a mattress and bed base at the former NSW Aboriginal Affairs minister's rented Redfern flat during a police search in November 2006.
Orkopoulos, 50, is standing trial on 34 child sex and drugs charges spanning more than 10 years, which contain allegations he had sex with teenage boys 11 times and supplied them with cannabis and heroin.
He pleaded not guilty to each of the charges when he was arraigned before a fresh jury of seven men and five women yesterday.
Judge Ralph Coolahan told the jury that a previous jury, empanelled the day before, had been discharged that morning for reasons which "don't concern you".
In her opening address, Crown prosecutor Helen Wilson told the court Orkopoulos had already pleaded guilty to two charges, which the Crown argued were "relevant to all of the other matters".
One, of possessing child pornography, related to the document found at his flat. The second, the court heard, related to two Hunter school students, who attended a function at Parliament House in 2005.
They were invited by Orkopoulos to his office, where he offered the pair cannabis. The male student then smoked a joint with Orkopoulos in a parliamentary courtyard.
Ms Wilson said the remaining three sets of charges which related to three alleged victims revealed a "secret part of [Orkopoulos's] life, a hidden part of his life" which involved the use and supply of drugs.
She said for Orkopoulos, drugs were a "lure, effectively, for sex with boys under the age of 18".
Ms Wilson said Orkopoulos had provided alcohol and drugs to, and had sex with, two of the boys multiple times over an extended period.
They had sex in his car at parks and bush locations in the Hunter, the court heard.
He had introduced one of the teenagers to heroin when he was in year 9 and had sex with him when he was sick and dizzy from its effects, the court was told.
As the pornographic document was read to the court, detailing sex acts between a man, Nick, and a 16-year-old boy, Patrick, and between Patrick and his neighbour Dennis, 12, Orkopoulos shifted several times in the dock, and on occasions closed his eyes and yawned.
The story, in which the 12-year-old loses his virginity, describes numerous acts of oral, anal and digital penetration between the two boys in the bedroom and pool of Nick's home in "Mayfield Road". This follows Dennis "spying on" Nick and Patrick having sex.
Dennis describes Patrick as his teacher and the sexual acts between them as a "training course".
