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Former NSW MP found guilty on two counts at child-assault retrial

2026-11-14

Illustrative NSW courthouse photograph in Goulburn, not the trial venue or the people in this case.

A NSW Supreme Court jury has found former Pittwater MP Rory Amon guilty of two sexual offences against a boy who was 13 at the time. The verdicts, delivered on Friday, November 13, followed a retrial concerning a meeting in July 2017.

The two counts were indecent assault of a person under 16 and sexual intercourse with a person aged between 10 and 14. Jurors took about four hours to reach their decisions. A sentencing hearing is listed for later in November; the Friday report said Amon remained on bail.

Why the case returned to court

This week's proceedings did not involve a fresh trial of every count in the original case. At an earlier trial in March, Amon faced ten charges involving the same complainant. That jury acquitted him on eight counts but could not agree on the remaining two, prompting the Director of Public Prosecutions to seek a retrial on those counts.

The eight acquittals related to an alleged second meeting, which Amon said had never taken place. The retrial instead concerned the first meeting. Those different outcomes are separate parts of the case: the new guilty verdicts should not be described as convictions on all ten original charges.

Age was central to the defence

The court heard that Amon and the boy had made contact through a dating app and met in person in July 2017, going to a public toilet in an underground car park near the boy's apartment block. Amon did not dispute that sexual conduct occurred at that first meeting, but maintained that he believed the boy was 17.

The complainant said he had told Amon he was 15, although he was actually 13. After hearing the evidence, the retrial jury returned guilty verdicts for rape and indecent assault at that first meeting. The victim is not identified in this report.

Amon resigned from the NSW parliament in August 2024 after his arrest. Friday's verdict decides the two retried charges; sentencing is a later stage of the proceedings, and no sentence was announced in the report.

Support

Support contacts listed with the court report include the NSW Sexual Violence Helpline (1800 424 017), NSW Victims Services (1800 633 063), Bravehearts for child sexual-abuse survivors (1800 272 831), the Child Protection Helpline (132 111), MARS Australia for men affected by sexual abuse ((07) 3857 1222), National Survivors Foundation (1300 124 433) and Full Stop Australia (1800 385 578). NSW Health also provides Sexual Assault Services.

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