{"id":14119,"date":"2026-05-19T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/14119\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:38:08","slug":"former-brisbane-gp-charged-with-148-counts-of-rape-and-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/14119\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Brisbane GP charged with 148 counts of rape and sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ABC News investigative reporter Eden Gillespie<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4JODHGQ_trove_avif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Dr Stan Theodoros is facing charges of rape and sexual assault.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nDr Stan Theodoros is facing charges of rape and sexual assault.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\n<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Queensland Police charged Stellios (Stan) Theodoros on Tuesday morning with 94 counts of rape and 54 counts of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Upper Mount Gravatt Criminal Investigation Branch established Operation Xray Cariyna in August last year after multiple women made complaints to police.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>He is expected to appear before Brisbane Magistrates Court on 23 June.<\/p>\n<p>UMG CIB Detective Senior Sergeant Denis Silk asked members of the public with information to &#8220;come forward directly to us or anonymously to Crime stoppers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One former patient who made a police complaint told the ABC the charges were &#8220;a long time coming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s such a relief. This is the biggest milestone and it needed to be known that charges have been laid,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4453,99,4452,152,4454,4451,4449,4450],"class_list":["post-14119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-audio","tag-brisbane","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}