Former State Opera Chief Executive Timothy Sexton Pleads Not Guilty to Child Sex Offences

By Rebecca Opie
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
November 14, 2018

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/state-opera-timothy-sexton-pleads-not-guilty-child-sex-offences/10497414

PHOTO: Tim Sexton with his lawyer outside court today. (ABC News: Rebecca Opie)

The former chief executive and artistic director of the State Opera of South Australia will stand trial accused of multiple child sex offences.

Timothy Sexton, 58, pleaded not guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to four child sex charges including maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a minor and indecent assault.

Prosecutors allege the offences were committed between 1988 and 1991 in South Australia.

Mr Sexton was the artistic director and chief executive of the State Opera from 2011.

He resigned in May 2017.

The ABC could not report the charges against Mr Sexton due to suppression orders.

Today, Magistrate Elizabeth Sheppard dismissed an application by his lawyer to extend the long-standing suppression on his identity.

He was remanded on continuing bail to be arraigned in the District Court on January 18, 2018.