{"id":434679,"date":"2026-05-19T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434679\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:01:10","slug":"former-brisbane-gp-charged-with-148-counts-of-rape-and-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434679\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Brisbane GP charged with 148 counts of rape and sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

By ABC News investigative reporter Eden Gillespie<\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/p>\n

\nDr Stan Theodoros is facing charges of rape and sexual assault.
\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n

A former Brisbane doctor has been charged with 148 counts of rape and sexual assault following an extensive police investigation that saw 15 patients come forward.<\/p>\n

Queensland Police charged Stellios (Stan) Theodoros on Tuesday morning with 94 counts of rape and 54 counts of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

Upper Mount Gravatt Criminal Investigation Branch established Operation Xray Cariyna in August last year after multiple women made complaints to police.<\/p>\n

Police allege that between the early 2000s and 2015, the 74-year-old Highgate Hill man sexually assaulted 15 women, aged in their late teens to 40s, during his role as a doctor at a health centre in Tarragindi.<\/p>\n

The family GP worked at Wellers Hill Medical Centre until his retirement in 2021 and was removed as a company director last year.<\/p>\n

He is expected to appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court on 23 June.<\/p>\n

UMG CIB Detective Senior Sergeant Denis Silk asked members of the public with information to “come forward directly to us or anonymously to Crime stoppers.”<\/p>\n

One former patient who made a police complaint told the ABC the charges were “a long time coming”.<\/p>\n

“It’s such a relief. This is the biggest milestone and it needed to be known that charges have been laid,” she said.<\/p>\n

Police say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n

– ABC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By ABC News investigative reporter Eden Gillespie Dr Stan Theodoros is facing charges of rape and sexual assault.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-434679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}