Former NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon found guilty of sexually assaulting child in toilet
An ex-state MP has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a young teen in a car park toilet after previously being acquitted of eight other charges.
A former politician is facing the possibility of a significant jail stint after a jury found him guilty of raping a 13-year-old boy.
Ex-NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon was found guilty by a jury after about four hours of deliberation on Friday of one count of sexual intercourse with a person aged between 10 and 14, and indecently assaulting a child.
The 37-year-old was facing his second NSW Supreme Court trial after a different jury acquitted him in March on eight separate charges of child sexual offending but could not reach a verdict on the two counts decided on Friday.
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Amon always maintained his innocence, saying he held an honest and reasonable belief the teen was over the age of 16.
The original trial was told the boy inflated his age when signing up to the gay hook-up app and again while talking with Amon.
Amon and the boy exchanged explicit images before a 2017 meeting in the carpark of the boy’s apartment block, the court heard.
At the time he first contacted the youth, Amon was working full-time for federal Mackellar MP Jason Falinski.
He would go on to serve two terms on Northern Beaches Council before being elected as the Liberal MP for the state seat of Pittwater in 2023.
The charges killed Amon’s fledgling career in state politics, forcing his expulsion from the Liberal party and his resignation after his election in March 2023.
His exit had implications for the state Liberals, which lost the formerly safe seat to a teal independent at the subsequent by-election.
Amon remains on bail and will return to court for a sentence hearing on November 27.
He’s the third former NSW MP convicted of sexual offences in recent years.
Former Kiama MP and coalition minister Gareth Ward was jailed in 2025 for the sexual abuse of two young men, including an intoxicated political staffer after a mid-week event at NSW Parliament House.
His three-year-nine-month minimum term expires in April 2029.
Former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos was found guilty in 2023 of sexually abusing teenage boys while he was a state Labor MP.
A jury found the 65-year-old guilty of 26 charges of sexual offending against four underage boys and supplying them with drugs over a decade, ending in 2003.
He’d already served more than a decade in prison for sexual assault of a minor, indecent assault, supplying heroin and cannabis and other offences.
